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Our strategy and theory of change act as our organization’s guiding star. The contents of them act as the foundation upon which we build our…

Until the end of 2025, SI will focus on improving the multilateral system’s capacity for the governance of rapid technological change, with a specific focus on AI...

On September 11th 2023, the Simon Institute co-hosted a workshop on frontier technologies as part of a series of foresight activities being…

The international community increasingly seeks to understand the large-scale risks we face, and the role institutions...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionize our world. As noted by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his remarks to the…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

Concerns about AI ethics — the harms AI causes due to imperfect development and training — are sometimes pegged against concerns about AI…

The need to act yet remain agile  Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone’s mind – most sectors will be transformed and policymakers…

Overview In April 2021, we launched the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI). In this post, we provide a review of SI’s work since…

Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction underwent a period of review. During this time…

The last few years have witnessed exciting developments in the field of biotechnology, driven in part by the machine learning revolution…

The last few years have witnessed striking progress in artificial intelligence, driven by the machine learning revolution. However, as…

As part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda, an intergovernmental process on digital governance has been put in place to produce the ‘Global…

Why future proofing? In the words of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, “many of today’s multilateral frameworks are…

“…I don’t believe that predicting the future is really what we’re about. After all, we ourselves, or at least the younger ones among us, are…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

The Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG) of the United Nations is publishing a series of policy briefs to inform the Our Common…

On 10th March 2022, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that: “(…) there is renewed pressure to consider whether global…

From the 13th-16th January, the Simon Institute hosted 30 actors from across the multilateral system and academia to discuss risks from technological development ...

Future generations are fundamentally disempowered: they will inherit the planet and society we leave for them, yet they have no say in how…

In August 2022, SI was invited to contribute to two consultations held by the United Nations Foundation and High-Level Advisory Board member…

This post outlines SI’s strategic thinking around and current plan to engage with Our Common Agenda (OCA). The plan was developed in July…

What is it like to be a policymaker during the COVID-19 pandemic?  What might it be like during the next pandemic or another global crisis…

From May 23-28, SI’s CEO Maxime Stauffer attended the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) to speak on how the disaster risk…

SI has proven its value through knowledge synthesis, workshop facilitation and high-level events. This combination of activities has granted SI mandates to directly work on...

Strengthening science-policy capacity to mitigate Global Catastrophic Risks (GCRs) is difficult. As GCRs have not happened in the recent…

After demonstrating the potential for substantial impact in its first nine months of existence, SI enters the final stage of its startup…

The Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) and the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) are pleased to invite you to explore the in-person table-top exercise...

This event already took place. You can read a recap of it on the blog of the Geneva Science-Policy Interface. Complementing the BWC Meeting…

As summer is coming to an end, we wanted to share an update with you. Recent highlights from our blog: Building the field of long-term…

Together with the Geneva Science-Policy Interface, SI contributes “Behavioral Solutions for Evidence-based Decision-making” to the UN High…

Future generations are front and center of many foundational international governance texts. Yet, consideration of their interests regularly falls into oblivion...

As the world temporarily ground to a halt in 2020, it became clear that the world is not prepared for shocks worse than COVID-19. To prepare, we need policy change...

Part of our work at SI is to conduct research on how to integrate the interests of future generations into policymaking processes. We call this field long-term governance...

At SI, we support international policy actors in dealing with uncertainty, complexity, time-pressure and global catastrophic risks. Below is a compilation of fields and resources...

Our theory of change illustrates how we intend to contribute to the long-term flourishing of civilization. In this post, we outline our overarching strategic thinking...

On April 1st, we co-hosted the event "Towards 2030: Navigating complexity and information overload in decision-making" as part of UNRISD's "From Science to Practice" series...

The Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) aims to increase the long-term impact of policymaking processes. In its first 24 months SI’s core objectives are to...

Given the difficulty of measuring effects on policy networks, we anchor our strategy in a detailed theory of change. While organizational long-term adaptability...