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Motto | Connect Minds. Transform Worlds. |
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Type | Private nonprofit |
Established | 2013 |
Founder | Nigel A. L. Clarke (Trustee), Mark Gillespie (CEO) |
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Website | www |
The Global Leaders Institute (GLI) is an executive education graduate school for social entrepreneurship in the arts [1] headquartered in Washington DC with seasonal offices in Chile and Poland.
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, [2] Duke University, Georgetown University, McGill University, [3] New York University, Bard College, [4] Stanford University, The University of Chicago, and The League of American Orchestras.
GLI Cohort Members carry out immersive fieldwork in 40+ countries annually on five continents. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Fieldwork site hosts include the Silkroad Ensemble Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Montréal, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music, Teatro del Lago, Universidad Austral de Chile, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), Verbier Festival, Chicago Public Schools, Fundación Azteca, National Arts Centre, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, KIPP, Sphinx Organization, 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.
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 (Chile), Panguipulli (Chile), Tuscany (Italy), Bielsko-Biala (Poland), Arequipa (Peru), and Palm Beach, Florida (United States). [11] [12] The GLI was established in 2013 with seed funding from The Hildegard Behrens Foundation. [13]