Global Agenda & Research
THE GOLD MERCURY AWARDS & SUMMITS FOR VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
Megavisionary Leaders Solving Global Challenges
Established in 1961, the Gold Mercury Awards® have become a historic symbol of global excellence, recognising outstanding Visionary Governance® across the world. Presented to world leaders, business visionaries, individuals, companies, and international institutions, the Awards honour exceptional vision and foresight in eight critical areas of global governance.
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE & COMPLEX SYSTEMS DESIGN
GLOGO®: The Global Governance Monitoring System
Gold Mercury has developed GLOGO® (Global Governance Monitoring System), a cutting-edge model for managing planetary governance and complexity. GLOGO® provides strategic foresight by evaluating global events, actions and decisions, assessing their potential impact on our shared future. Through historical precedents and active monitoring, GLOGO® enables us to navigate the complexities of the world, identifying opportunities and mitigating risks related to critical issues of governance, social dynamics, strategy, sustainability, and global security.
GLOBAL ETHICAL DYNAMICS FOR COOPERATIVE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
In cosmic terms, humanity may seem insignificant, yet our role in universal existence is too vital to ignore. Ensuring the survival and flourishing of humanity as an intellectual force in the universe is not just a responsibility—it must become our shared destiny.
Gold Mercury fosters a planetary perspective that transcends national, partisan, commercial, and ideological biases, uniting people under a common mission for Earth—one rooted in peace and cooperation. To secure our future, we must advance GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND PLANETARY SUSTAINABILITY by developing new mental frameworks for collaboration, strengthening diplomatic engagement, and empowering civil society. By aligning these efforts, we can protect our planet for present and future generations while expanding humanity’s reach into space—our next great frontier of discovery and imagination.
Advancing Planetary Relations for Cooperation.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE® FOR FUTURE VISIONEERING
Empowering leaders & organisations with anticipatory skills to design the future
With nearly 65 years of expertise in Visionary Governance®, Gold Mercury International has pioneered a systems-based approach to developing anticipatory foresight skills and Future Visioneering® frameworks for strategic, multi-decade decision-making. Our research and tools EMPOWER leadership, drive entrepreneurship, and transform organisational cultures to embrace megavisionary systems thinking and disruptive innovation for a better future.
By collaborating with the world’s leading minds, activists, governments, corporations, and international organisations, Gold Mercury’s research is dedicated to reshaping global governance, fostering new ethical paradigms, and advancing humanity to drive planetary sustainability.
INTERNATIONAL LAW AS AN INSTITUTIONAL REFORM TOOL
Promoting the rule
of law as enabler of change in a complex world.
Through our role on the Board of Trustees of the World Law Foundation, we actively explore new ways to promote the Rule of Law as a cornerstone of freedom, peace, and the strengthening of democracy and its institutions worldwide. As a powerful instrument of global governance, the Rule of Law enables transformative reforms, drives positive change, and fosters the creation of new institutional capabilities and organisations. By harnessing its potential, we can unite efforts to advance Planetary Sustainability and build a more just and resilient world.
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON PRESENT & FUTURE GENERATIONS
Disruptive and exponential technologies affecting humanity’s future
Visionary Governance® requires leaders to fully understand how disruptive technologies such as Nanotech, CRISPR, AI, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, and Robotics are creating new paradigms that significantly reshape global sectors, transforming society and industry. We identify and monitor these exponential technologies, and through our Megavisionary Intelligence® briefings and Technology Maps, we provide invaluable anticipatory foresight. This enables long-term, strategic, ethical, and sustainable decision-making for planetary resilience and governance.
GOLD MERCURY’S GLOBAL ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Media, summits, events, & partnerships
Gold Mercury advocates for advancing Visionary Governance® in government, business, and civil society to generate strategic foresight, anticipatory thinking, and policies that integrate sustainable and ethical decision-making for people and the planet. Our Gold Mercury Awards® are a historic symbol recognising visionary and ethical leadership worldwide. We share our ideas and research via our capability-building programmes, publications, events, summits, activities, and partnerships with prominent thought leadership institutions and individuals committed to building a sustainable and peaceful future.
Nicolas De Santis Cuadra, President of Gold Mercury International and Robert Milton, former CEO of Air Canada at the launch of the book ‘Shaking the Skies’ about the future of global aviation by Giovanni Bisignani, former CEO of IATA.
