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Revisiting Global Governance
August 21 to 31

  • Discussions
  • Conversations
  • Input
  • Panels
  • Talks
  • Workshops

Program

For this year’s edition of the Bucerius Summer School and the Alumni Conference, the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS and the Karl Schlecht Foundation have prepared a multi-faceted program spread across Hamburg, Lübeck and Berlin. Participants had the opportunity to interact with high-level actors at governmental venues like ministries in Berlin, giving them a firsthand look at policy-making processes and the attendant challenges. The itinerary additionally included insightful discussions as well as workshops, simulations, cultural excursions, top-quality entertainment and more.

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Past Speakers

Robert Habeck
Shashi Tharoor
Bogolo Kenewendo
Yulia Navalnaya
Rahul Gandhi
and others

Dean

Georg Mascolo

Portrait of Georg Mascolo
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Georg Mascolo joined the Bucerius Summer School in 2017 as Dean and Moderator. A renowned journalist and author, he last served as Head of the Joint Investigative Group comprised by leading German media (Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and WDR/NDR TV stations) from 2014 to 2022. Previously, he spent nearly 25 years with the SPIEGEL Group publishing house while serving as SPIEGEL magazine’s Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2013. Georg Mascolo is a Member of the Core Group of the Munich Security Conference and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as well as a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center in Washington DC. In 2014, he was honored as “Political Journalist of the Year” in Germany.
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First hosted by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in 2001, the Bucerius Summer School has always been more than a high-profile conference. The ten-day program is about building networks and enhancing cross-cultural cooperation across all walks of public life. In doing so, we bring together promising young professionals who have been nominated by leading figures from the fields of politics, economics, media and academia. Candidates are between the ages of 28 and 36 and travel to Hamburg from all over the world. The overall aim is to foster leadership qualities in these emerging pioneers by involving them in an international dialogue on current political, economic, social and legal questions. 

In a world marked by increasing complexity and disorder, the 2025 theme of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance addressed the urgent need to adapt our global governance systems to such complexities. Following up on the annual summer program, we maintain an active alumni network in order to deepen the connections made. In 2025, over 200 alumni attended for our fifth reunion of all Bucerius Summer Schools and other governance programs conducted by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS since 2001. The reunion took place immediately after this year's Bucerius Summer School, from 29 to 31 August.

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Foundation

The Karl Schlecht Foundation is a non-profit foundation with a focus on “good leadership”. The foundation’s guiding principle is that leadership in business and society is improved through a reliance on humanistic values. Against this background, it supports projects for the personal development of young people and prospective managers in the areas of ethics, leadership, entrepreneurship, culture and technology. Now located in Aichtal, Munich and Berlin, the Karl Schlecht Foundation was founded in 1998 by engineer Karl Schlecht, the long-standing director and establisher of the concrete pump manufacturer Putzmeister.