The Global Leaders Institute (GLI) is an executive education graduate school for social entrepreneurship in the arts headquartered in Washington DC with seasonal offices in Chile and Poland.

Academic Curators

The Global Leaders Institute offers a 12-month Executive MBA in Arts Innovation focused on social entrepreneurship, cultural management, sustainable impact, and community development. Courses are co-curated by nine institutions of higher learning: Harvard University,

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, Georgetown University, McGill University, New York University, Bard College,

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, The University of Chicago, and The League of American Orchestras.

International Fieldwork

GLI Cohort Members carry out immersive

fieldwork Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting. The approaches and methods used in field research vary across disciplines. For example, biologists who conduct fie ...

in 40+ countries annually on five continents. Fieldwork site hosts include the Silkroad Ensemble

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a South Australian performing arts organisation comprising 75 full-time musicians, established in 1936. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, the orchestra's primary performance venue is the Adelaide Town Ha ...

Opéra de Montréal LOpéra de Montréal is an opera company in Montreal, Canada. It performs at the Place des Arts theatre complex in downtown Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. It was founded in 1980 as a company focused on productions in French. History ...

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

, Lucerne Festival,

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

Charleston Symphony Orchestra The Charleston Symphony Orchestra aka CSO, is an American orchestra based in Charleston, South Carolina and performs Masterworks and Pops series, Youth Orchestra concerts and more, at the Gaillard Center and dozens of other venues across the Lowcou ...

Royal Conservatory of Music The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a non-profit music education institution and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher (musician), Edward ...

, Teatro del Lago,

Universidad Austral de Chile Austral University of Chile ( es, Universidad Austral de Chile or UACh) is a Chilean research university based primarily in Valdivia, Chile, Valdivia, with a satellite campus in Puerto Montt. Founded on September 7, 1954, it is one of the eight or ...

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (GSO; sv, Göteborgs Symfoniker) is a Swedish symphony orchestra based in Gothenburg. The GSO is resident at the Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen. The orchestra received the title of the National Orche ...

New Brunswick Youth Orchestra The New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, NBYO for short, (french: L’orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau-Brunswick, OJNB) is a youth orchestra based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Founded in 1965, the orchestra has approximately 80 members from acr ...

, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile ( es, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the foreign policy formulated by ...

, Verbier Festival, Chicago Public Schools, Fundación Azteca, National Arts Centre, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico,

Metropolitan Youth Symphony Metropolitan Youth Symphony is a youth orchestra organization in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Founded in 1974 by Lajos Balogh with just a handful of students, it is now one of the largest youth orchestra groups in the country. It has about 500 students ...

, KIPP,

Sphinx Organization The Sphinx Organization is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of young Black and Latino classical musicians. Based in Detroit, Michigan, it was founded by the American violinist Aaron Dworkin. The Sphinx was chosen to represen ...

, National Batuta Foundation, Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Society of the Four Arts, and the Richmond Symphony, among others.

History

Nigel Clarke, Jamaica's Minister of Finance and Public Service of Jamaica, is co-founding chair of The Global Leaders Institute. In recent years, the GLI has hosted large-scale Innovation Summits in

Frutillar Frutillar is a city and commune located in southern Chile, Chilean Patagonia, in Llanquihue Province, within the Los Lagos Region, the lake district. The bay of Frutillar is placed on the banks of Lake Llanquihue, the largest lake entirely within ...

( Chile), Panguipulli ( Chile), Tuscany ( Italy), Bielsko-Biala ( Poland),

Arequipa Arequipa (; Aymara and qu, Ariqipa) is a city and capital of province and the eponymous department of Peru. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". It is the second most populated city ...

( Peru), and

Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. Located on a barrier island in east-central Palm Beach County, the town is separated from several nearby cities including West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach by the Intracoas ...

( United States). The GLI was established in 2013 with seed funding from The Hildegard Behrens Foundation.

Notable faculty

Marin Alsop Marin Alsop ( �mɛər.ɪn ˈæːl.sɑːp born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate ...

, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra music director * Matthew Bishop , The Economist former New York bureau chief *

Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic. Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of twelve books, including ''Love Your Enemies'' (2019), The ''Co ...

, Harvard Kennedy School &

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

professor * Carla Dirlikov Canales , The Canales Project founder *

Roberto Dañino Roberto Dañino (born 2 March 1951) is a Peruvian lawyer who was a former Prime Minister of Peru. He was also the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank. He has practiced corpora ...

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Prime Minister of Peru The president of the Council of Ministers of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente del Consejo de Ministros del Perú), informally called Premier (form of address) or Prime Minister, is the head of the cabinet as the most senior member of the Council ...

Hobart Earle Hobart Earle (born December 20, 1960) is a Venezuelan-born conductor of American descent and People's Artist of Ukraine recipient. Education Hobart Earle was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland and P ...

, Odessa Philharmonic Theater music director * James Ehnes , Grammy Award winning Canadian violinist * Michael J. Feuer , National Academy of Education former president * Michael Gordon ,

Bang on a Can Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted contemporary classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. Called "the cou ...

co-founder * Angel Gil-Ordoñez ,

PostClassical Ensemble The PostClassical Ensemble is a classical music musical ensemble from Washington, D.C. The organization was founded by conductor Angel Gil-Ordoñez and music historian Joseph Horowitz in 2003. History For the first period of its history, the PCE ...

co-founder & artistic director * Marcus Johnson ,

NAACP Image Award The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. Similar to ...

laureate *

William A. Haseltine William A. Haseltine (born October 17, 1944) is an American scientist, businessman, author, and philanthropist. He is known for his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS and the human genome. Haseltine was a professor at Harvard Medical School, whe ...

, Harvard Medical School professor * David Kelley , The Atlas Society founder * David Ludwig ,

Curtis Institute of Music The Curtis Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Philadelphia. It offers a performance diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in opera, and a Professional Studies Certificate in opera. All students attend on full scholarship. Hi ...

artistic dean *

Albrecht Mayer Albrecht Mayer (born 3 June 1965) is a German classical oboist and conductor. The principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, he is internationally known as a soloist and chamber musician and has made many recordings. Biography Born in Erlangen, ...

, Berlin Philharmonic principal oboe * Margaret Martin ,

Harmony Project The Harmony Project is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, that provides free music instruction and instruments to youth in underserved communities in LA and around the country. Programming c ...

founder * Michael McCarthy ,

London Oratory School Schola The London Oratory School Schola is a choir for Roman Catholic Church, Catholic boys of the London Oratory School established in 1996 by John McIntosh (educator), John McIntosh CBE. The current director of the Schola is Charles Cole. The choir's ...

founder * Anne Midgette , The Washington Post former music critic *

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Hilda Margarita Ochoa-Brillembourg (born 1945, in Caracas) is a Venezuelan business woman and the current president and chief executive officer of Strategic Investment Group (SIG) which she founded in 1987. She is a former chief investment offic ...

Strategic Investment Group Strategic Investment Group (also known as Strategic Investment Partners, Inc. or SIP) is an American investment manager with approximately US$ 38 billion of assets under management. The company is credited for pioneering the fund of funds inves ...

founding chairman *

Adam Ockelford Adam Ockelford is a Professor of Music and Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, London. He wrote the official biography of Derek Paravicini entitled "In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek ...

, author & researcher *

Gabriela Ortiz Gabriela Ortiz (born 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. Biography Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City of parents who were folk musicians. She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris at the Ecole Normale de M ...

, composer & Indiana University professor *

Frank J. Oteri Frank J. Oteri (born May 12, 1964) is a New York City-based composer, a music journalist, lecturer, and new music advocateDrew McManuAn Interview with Frank J. Oteri ''The Partial Observer'', June 5, 2006. His musical works have been performed ...

International Society for Contemporary Music The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music. The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...

vice-president *

Tom G. Palmer Tom Gordon Palmer (; born 1956, Bitburg-Mötsch, West Germany) is an American libertarian author and theorist, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network. Professional life Palme ...

, Cato Institute senior fellow *

Ernesto Palacio Ernesto Palacio (born October 19, 1946, Lima) is a Peruvian tenor, particularly associated with Rossini and Mozart roles. Palacio first studied theology before turning to music. He began his vocal studies in Milan, and after winning first prize i ...

Rossini Opera Festival The Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) is an international music festival held in August of each year in Pesaro, Italy, the birthplace of the opera composer Gioachino Rossini. Its aim, in addition to studying the musical heritage of the composer, is to r ...

general director *

Panos Panay Panos Andreas Panay (born June 25, 1972) is a Cyprus-born entrepreneur, executive and author. Panay is currently the Senior Vice President of Global Strategy & Innovation at Berklee College of Music. He is the founding Managing Director of Berkle ...

, The Recording Academy president * Jasper Parrott ,

HarrisonParrott HarrisonParrott is an international artist and project management agency working in the field of classical music and the arts, with offices in London, Munich and Paris. It was founded in 1969 by Jasper Parrott and Terry Harrison. Company histor ...

co-founder * Rafael Payare , Montreal Symphony Orchestra & San Diego Symphony music director *

Paolo Petrocelli EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is an international Nonprofit organization for the promotion of peace through music diplomacy and education in Europe, Middle East and the Mediterranean region. History EMMA for Peace wa ...

, Coldplay cultural advisor *

Gabriel Prokofiev Gabriel Prokofiev (born 6 January 1975) is a Russian-British composer, producer, DJ, and Artistic Director of the Nonclassical record label and nightclub. Early life Gabriel Prokofiev was born on 6 January 1975 to an English mother and a Russi ...

, composer &

Nonclassical Nonclassical is a British independent record label and night club founded in 2004 by Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of Sergei Prokofiev. History Nonclassical has released fourteen albums, each following a concept of recording new contemporary cl ...

founder * André de Quadros , Boston University professor & human rights activist *

Nirupama Rao Nirupama Menon Rao (born 6 December 1950) is a retired civil servant of 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service cadre who served as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011, as well as being India's Ambassador to the United States, China and Sri La ...

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Foreign Secretary of India The foreign secretary of India ( IAST: ''Videśa Saciva'') is the top diplomat of India and administrative head of the Ministry of External Affairs. This post is held by an Indian foreign service officer of the rank of secretary to the govern ...

* Matt Ridley , British Author & House of Lords Member (2013-2021) *

Norman E. Rosenthal Norman E. Rosenthal is a South African author, psychiatrist and scientist who in the 1980s first described seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and pioneered the use of light therapy for its treatment. Rosenthal was born and educated in South A ...

Georgetown Medical School Georgetown University School of Medicine, a medical school opened in 1851, is one of Georgetown University's five graduate schools. It is located on Reservoir Road in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, adjacent to the University's ...

professor * Luis Szarán ,

Recycled Orchestra of Cateura The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura ( es, Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura), also known as the Recycled Orchestra, is an orchestra composed of children from Asunción, Paraguay who play musical instruments made from scrap materials ...

founder * Doris Sommer , Harvard University professor * Alexandra Soumm , French violinist *

Thomas C. Südhof Thomas Christian Südhof (; born December 22, 1955), ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular P ...

, Nobel Prize laureate *

Lars H. Thunell Lars Henrik Thunell (born August 1948) is a Swedish businessman. He was the Executive Vice President and CEO of International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. Thunell was born in August 1948. He attended Stockholm University ...

, The International Finance Corporation former CEO *

Hugo Ticciati Hugo Ticciati (born April 12, 1980) is a British-born violinist, living in Sweden. He has performed in several worldwide events such as the Gotland Chamber Music Festival (Sweden), the St. Denis-Festival (Paris), and the Festival Internacional ...

, Confidencen

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

artistic director *

Sergio Vela Sergio Vela (born June 27, 1964, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American opera director, designer, radio and television host, musician, lawyer and academician. Education He studied piano with Héctor Rojas, singing with Maria Julius, orchestra con ...

, Mexico's former

Secretariat of Culture The Secretariat of Culture ( es, Secretaría de Cultura), formerly known as the National Council for Culture and Arts ( es, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes or CONACULTA), is a Mexican government agency in charge of the nation's museums ...

& Grupo Salinas artistic director *

Mike Vranos Michael W. Vranos is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who in the 1990s was referred to by some as the "most powerful man on Wall Street." In 1993, he reportedly earned $15 million from trading mortgage bonds. ''Fortune Magazine ...

Ellington Management Group Ellington Management Group is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund operation. As of June 2019, the firm was reportedly managing $8.5 billion in structured products and other credit instruments. History The firm was co-founded in 1994 by Mike Vrano ...

founding chairman *

Veronica Wadley Veronica Judith Colleton Wadley, Baroness Fleet, (born 28 February 1952) is the chairman of Arts Council London and board member of Arts Council England (2010–present). She is a director and trustee of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools ...

, CBE ,

London Arts Council London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major se ...

chair & former editor of the '' Evening Standard'' * William Westney , author & Geneva International Music Competition laureate * Benjamin Zander ,

Boston Philharmonic Orchestra The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (not to be confused with the Boston Symphony Orchestra) is a semi-professional orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1979. Their concerts take place at New England Conserv ...

founder

Recent fellows

* Maria Olga Arias , Fundación Azteca international programs director * Sophie Butler , Minneapolis Public Schools orchestras director * Rachael Cohen , Chicago Symphony Orchestra institute manager * Drake Driscoll ,

Young Concert Artists Young Concert Artists is a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting the careers of talented young classical musicians from all over the world. The competition, founded in 1961, allows artists from all over ...

engagement manager * Janet Fischer , Live Music Now CEO * Mitsuko Flynn ,

education director * Jackson Guillen , Houston Symphony youth orchestra CEO * Ivan Anthony Henares , UNESCO Philippine Commission Secretary General * Anna Hiemstra , Princess Christina of the Netherlands concours artistic manager * Claudia Curiel de Icaza ,

of Mexico City (2022-) * Christine Lauck , Claussen-Simon-Stiftung officer *

Toufic Maatouk Toufic Maatouk is an orchestra conductor, and currently Deputy Executive Director at the Abu Dhabi Festival and Abu Dhabi Music and Arts foundation, guest conductor of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Artistic Director of Beirut Chants Inter ...

Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation Established in 1996 by Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo, ADMAF Founder, the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation. Abu Dhabi Festival ADMAF organizes the annual Abu Dhabi Festival. See also * Culture of the United Arab Emir ...

deputy director * Maria Mathieson , Peabody Institute executive director (prep) * Jonathan McCormick , Chicago Symphony Orchestra director of education * Karoline Meneses , Loyola Marymount University head of strings * Maria Claudia Parias , National Batuta Foundation president (2018-2022) * Jessica Phillips , Metropolitan Opera principal clarinet * Lia Uribe , University of Arkansas music chair * Nancy Usher , University of Nevada, Las Vegas dean of music * Ignacio Barron Viela , Billings Symphony executive director * Emmanuel Vukovich ,

Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition is the largest and oldest continuous chamber music competition in the United States. In 1973, Joseph E. Fischoff and fellow members of the South Bend Chamber Music Society established a competition to ...

gold medalist * Laura Jane Yee ,

national workshops manager * Scott Wilson , Guildhall School conducting faculty

References

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