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About us
Our mission is to give everyone on earth a seat at the global governance table.

Our vision is to create a permanent global citizens’ assembly that by 2030 has over 10m annual participants, is recognised in improving our ability to tackle global issues such as climate change, health and inequality, is recognised by over 50% of the global population and is mostly funded by citizens’ donations.

The Global Assembly is a truly worldwide project involving organisations in over 50 countries.

It is supported by institutions, funders and expert committees.
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The Global Assembly has been co-designed with citizens, institutions, scientists and social movements.

Most citizens’ assemblies are top-down, initiated by governments to listen to the people of their nation.
This is the opposite.

The Global Assembly has been co-designed with institutions, scientists, citizens and social movements from around the world and built entirely from the ground-up.
The Global Assembly has been founded by a world-class team of specialists
We have delivered hundreds of citizen engagement projects including World Wide Views for the Paris and Copenhagen COPs; the only project comparable to the Global Assembly ever undertaken.
We have worked with the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), many governments and foundations.

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A dedicated team realising the Global Assembly dream

• Yago Bermejo Abati, Deliberativa
• Margot Becker, OSCA
• Bjørn Bedsted and Lars Kluver, Danish Board of Technology, Global Coordinators WWViews
• Flynn Devine, OSCA
• Eva Sow Ebion, Director of Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Islam Elbeiti, Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Massamba Fall, Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Chirag Gupta, OSCA
• Brett Hennig, Sortition Foundation
• Marius Kamugisha, Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Susan Nakyung Lee 이나경, Deliberativa
• Rachel Ward Lilley
• Claire Mellier, OSCA
• Jehad Oumer, Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Jon Stever, Director of Innovation for Policy Foundation
• Sarah Whitley, OSCA
• Rich Wilson, OSCA

Two governance committees guide the Global Assembly

• Knowledge and Wisdom Committee
  . Professor Sir Robert T. Watson, University of East Anglia (Chair)
  . Dr Nafeez Ahmed, System Shift Lab
  . Dr Stuart Capstick, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation, Cardiff University
  . Professor Purnamita Dasgupta, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
  . Professor Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Bangladesh
  . Professor Michael N. Oti, Petroleum Geology, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  . Jyoti Ma (USA) & Mindahi Bastida Munoz (Mexico), The Fountain, Sacred Economics, Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
  . Professor Julia Steinberger, Ecological Economics, University of Lausanne
• Global Governance and Participation Committee
  . Professor Nicole Curato, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra (Chair)
  . Professor Bonny Ibhawoh, Human Rights History and African History McMaster University, Canada
  . Poonam Joshi, Director, Funders Initiative for Civil Society, UK
  . Professor Helene Landemore, Yale University, USA
  . Dr Tiago Peixoto, Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank
  . Vijayendra (Biju) Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, World Bank
  . Natalie Samarasinghe, United Nations Association

Our values

1. We build new decision-making infrastructure - We believe that people need to have a seat at the global governance table. We are establishing a new decision-making body that activates and involves as many people as possible in defining and addressing the challenges we face.
2. We trust in people - We believe that our common global challenges require collective global solutions. When people can access the tools to meet, connect and come up with solutions together, they can and they do.
3. We build empathy between people - We believe that we make better decisions when we understand each other. When people communicate at a fundamental level beyond opinions and debate we can overcome polarisation and division and create mutual respect.
4. We focus on the means, not the ends - We believe the most urgent challenge we face is not to propose solutions, but to come up with better ways of generating solutions together. We seek never to impose our own views, but create a platform for people to think, talk, listen, co-create and act together.
5. We recognize our biases - We believe that our values, experiences, contexts and identities influence our behaviours and perceptions and it is by actively surfacing and recognizing them that we can best serve others.
6. We emphasize learning in practice - We believe that we don’t have all the answers, so we share all our findings and mistakes so that we can learn together.
7. We are open - We believe in making available all our documentation, data, source code, methods, and materials.
8. We are independent - We seek to understand and engage with existing power structures, while maintaining complete independence from them. Governments, funders and institutions have absolutely no influence over the process.