On November 13, 2020, the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO) was successfully launched at the third edition of the Paris Peace Forum, accompanied by an expert panel to discuss its main objectives and perspectives.
The launch and panel were moderated by Martin Geiger, deputy secretary-general of AGTO and professor of ‘Politics of Migration and Mobility’ at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Before the launch, Martin Geiger presented the project via the online Paris Peace Forum platform, during which he outlined the motives and mission behind the AGTO.
Supported by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, the Paris Peace Forum was founded in 2018 to tackle global problems and strengthen multilateral cooperation. In 2020, for the third consecutive year, the Paris Peace Forum assembled global leaders including heads of state and governments, CEOs of major multinationals, as well as civil society actors to advance concrete solutions to the enormous challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to rebuild a better and more sustainable world. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the third edition of the Paris Peace Forum was held in digital format.
At the Paris Peace Forum, the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations, an organization proposed by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), completed its soft launch with an expert discussion on November 13. As a new platform for knowledge-sharing and capacity-building and to facilitate international dialogue on global talent mobility, the AGTO addresses a significant gap in global governance and responds to challenges in global cooperation on talent flow, now further intensified by the global pandemic.