Gold Mercury is the Institution for Future Worldbuilding®.
Advancing humanity's capacity to envision, design, build and govern planetary futures.
Our global organisation and historic awards advance Visionary Governance®, long-term leadership and international cooperation.
For more than six decades, Gold Mercury has served as a global platform for engaging visionary leaders from government, business, institutions and civil society. Through the Gold Mercury Awards® and high-level dialogue, we have elevated transformative ideas, strengthened global cooperation and advanced the principles of Visionary Governance® that underpin a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future.
GOLD MERCURY AWARDS FOR PEACE & SECURITY
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PROTECTING A YOUNG DEMOCRACY
King Juan Carlos I of Spain receiving the Gold Mercury Award® from Eduardo De Santis, Founder of Gold Mercury. King Juan Carlos played a decisive role in defending Spain's democratic transition during the attempted coup d'état of 1981.
GOLD MERCURY AWARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCING ELECTRONICS
Akio Morita, Founder and Chairman of Sony Corporation, received the Gold Mercury Award® in 1973 for his pioneering contribution to the advancement of electronics and display technologies.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & FRONTIER INNOVATION
Gold Mercury launches MEGAVISIONARY TECHNOLOGIES®, a global task force dedicated to monitoring, anticipating and shaping the impact of artificial intelligence, exponential technologies and human augmentation on industries, governance, civilisation and planetary futures.
GOLD MERCURY BRAIN HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
Gold Mercury becomes Industry Partner of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre.
MEGAVISIONARY COUNCIL
Susan B. Eirich, PhD, founder of Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary, joins the Gold Mercury Megavisionary Council.
The Gold Mercury Awards
Since 1961, the Gold Mercury Awards® have been the pioneering recognition for Visionary Governance®, honouring the leaders, nations and institutions whose long-term thinking and stewardship are shaping humanity's future.
Gold Mercury Award 2025
Dharamsala, Indian Himalayas
In the year he marks his 90th birthday, Gold Mercury has awarded the Gold Mercury Visionary Governance Award 2025 to His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to peace, non-violence, wisdom culture, and environmental stewardship.
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
Defining the frameworks that govern the future.
Explore Gold Mercury’s Visionary Governance® capability to provide strategic foresight for global visioneering, cooperation and decision-making.
Nicolas De Santis,
PresIdent, Gold Mercury
Keynote at Türkiye Republic's 100th Anniversary Summit
GOLD MERCURY ACADEMY®
The Home of Future Worldbuilders®
The Gold Mercury Academy develops Future Worldbuilders® by immersing leaders, teams, enterprises and governments in the Megavisionary System®—an integrated intellectual and cognitive system for systematically imagining, envisioning, building and Governing from the Future®.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
Los Angeles shows that Homelessness can be reduced through Visionary Governance.
Inside Safe: How Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Its Reputation One Encampment at a Time
The cognitive architecture for civilisational-scale Future Worldbuilding®
The Global Governance Monitoring System®
MISSION CONTROL FOR PLANET EARTH
GLOGO® is Gold Mercury's planetary intelligence system for organising complexity and the forces shaping humanity's future.
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Three techno-human future trajectories in the disruptive age of AI
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AI AND FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES
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Megavisionary Technologies
Task Force
Using our GLOGO® Global Governance Monitoring System®, the Task Force monitors, anticipates, and shapes the impact of artificial intelligence and frontier technologies on our planetary futures.
NATION BUILDING
Gold Mercury President Meets Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, in Tirana.
INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS
Gold Mercury Delegation Honoured by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile in Dharamsala, India.
FROM OUR PROTECTORES FUTURI® NETWORK
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Protecting and upholding the rule of law with King Felipe VI Of Spain.
GLOBAL HEALTH
World leading global ageing scientists join Gold Mercury Advisory Board
TECH MEETINGS AT GOLD MERCURY
Vint Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist & Father of the Internet visits Gold Mercury.
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GLOBAL PEACE AND SECURITY
Professor Peter Lee joins Gold Mercury Board. Author and Global expert on the Ethics of War.
IN MEMORIAM FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA
Gold Mercury board member Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director-General of UNESCO.
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Gold Mercury International supports the United Nations initiative Pact for The Future.
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