UN Necessary
Nudhara Yusuf and Daniel Perell of the Coalition for the United Nations We Need—also with the Stimson Center's Global Governance Innovation Network, and the Baha’i International Community—look ahead to the UN’s 2024 Summit of the Future through a series of intimate and penetrating discussions with many of the international figures contributing to the Summit’s shaping.
Join them as they talk with people from all regions of the world, and with diverse international service experience, as they consult on how the Summit of the Future can realize its promise.
UN Necessary
The UN’s Next Chapter with Stephen Heintz and Richard Ponzio
In this episode of UN Necessary, recorded on 22 January 2025 in New York, hosts Nudhara Yusuf and Daniel Perell sit down with Stephen Heintz, President and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Dr. Richard Ponzio, Director of the Global Governance, Justice, and Security Program where he also co-directs the Global Governance Innovation Network.
As the world grapples with rising geopolitical tensions, democratic backsliding, and the challenge of global governance reform, our guests reflect on the outcomes of the UN's Summit of the Future and the broader trajectory of multilateralism. Heintz and Ponzio discuss the Pact for the Future, the need for a new logic in international cooperation, and the role of civil society in pushing institutional change.