Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century

The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation are no longer fit for purpose and lack the instruments, resources and legitimacy to address the risks threatening our future.

Richard Falk is Princeton University’s Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Chair of Global Law in the Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University London, Co-director of its Centre of Climate Crime and Climate Justice. He is Research Associate at Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute, author of This Endangered Planet (1971) and a memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim (2021). He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023.

Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist and Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum, with 30 years of experience in international organisations. He was Director of World Bank’s Global Indicators Group, within the Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency. In 2018-19, he was Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University) and previously Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program of the World Economic Forum and Resident Representative for the International Monetary Fund in Russia in the early 1990s.