New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Aiming to provoke people to think — and therefore act — differently about the global issues that are shaping their future, the Tällberg Foundation is sharing some of its conversations in podcast form. The podcast invites you to hear from leaders from different sectors and geographies as they explore issues that are challenging and changing our societies.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 244
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Hot War, Cold War, New War
A few weeks ago, Belarus shocked the world when it forced a commercial flight from Athens to Vilnius to land and seized two passengers, one a dissident journalist. But that outrage was only the most …
00:35:01 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Worth Repeating: Live and Let Live
2020 will be remembered as the Pandemic Year, when a deadly pathogen somehow moved from bat to human—and the rest is history still being written. Six out of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic: every…
00:25:34 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
A New Middle East
A case can be made that the Middle East is going through a realignment as significant as any since statesmen drew lines on maps after World War I or since the state of Israel was created in 1948. Ne…
00:31:03 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries in between—there has been an accelerating erosion of both the forms and realities of represe…
00:29:30 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
Welcome to the High-Tech Barbecue
Real, honest-to-god, good tasting steaks—without the downsides of factory farming.
Agriculture as it is practiced today—industrial scale ranching and farming—is already a huge contributor to the acce…
00:28:48 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Heart of Darkness
Michela Wrong who has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, as a journalist, and as an author, talks about the people, the politics, and the day-to-day realities.
Africa is growing or, to …
00:34:54 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Leadership Special: Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons
Listen as two prize winners and friends Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons, discuss how great leaders can change everything.
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, pros…
00:19:59 |
Mon 17 May 2021
The hope of our future
“Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that youth's satisfaction with democracy is declining...
Fili…
00:26:21 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Leadership Special: Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era, discuss how great leaders can change everything.
Today's world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, pros…
00:13:21 |
Wed 12 May 2021
Alone together: China and America
We seem to be moving from a world where markets ruled to one where politics rules: the politics of nationalism and confrontation, of East versus West instead of East and West.
It wasn't that long ago…
00:33:21 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Girls, Interrupted
What’s bad for kids is worse for girls because in too many countries, especially in low- and middle-income countries, girls don’t have anywhere near adequate access to schools, health care, or even f…
00:29:09 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Leadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan,Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligence
Listen, as she is interviewed by Cecilia Weckstrom, Sr Director, Diversity, Inclusion & People Innovation at Lego in the UK
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, p…
00:16:07 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
The Chinese Puzzle
What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world?
What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Com…
00:34:29 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
The kids are not alright!
Early in 2020, when the global pandemic was still gathering force, UNICEF published a prophetic, deeply disturbing document "All children of all ages and in all countries are being effected in partic…
00:28:24 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Leadership Special: Leadership Special: a profile in brief with Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer
In this special episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners.
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, pea…
00:16:49 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
The best of times, and the worst of times
This week’s guests are trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be.
Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems frozen in place a…
00:37:38 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
If it’s illiberal, is it democracy?
Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways, the latter is more profound at a time when democrac…
00:41:48 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator
In this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore's ambassador to the U.S and a member of the 2020 pr…
00:15:43 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Casas Muertas
Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer from huger, malnutrition, shortages of food, medici…
00:34:50 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
When is too much freedom too much?
Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is widely considered one of America's leading legal scholars on freedom of speech and has written extensively about the evolution of that fundamental …
00:35:12 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
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