The Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN) brings world class scholarship together with international policy-making to address fundamental global governance challenges, threats, and opportunities. Research through the network focuses on the development of institutional, policy, legal, operational, and normative improvements in the global governance architecture. GGIN is a collaborative project of the Stimson Center, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Plataforma CIPÓ, Leiden University, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development, Global Institute for Strategic Research, and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water. They are joined by ninety-five Partner Institutions from around the world (comprised of interested think tanks, universities, and other non-governmental organizations, each registered as Institutional Members of the Academic Council on the UN System) engaged in UN and broader global governance scholarship and policy research.
The GGIN focuses on global governance gaps in these thematic areas and workstreams:
- Enhancing Global Economic & Social Governance
- Rethinking the UN’s Approach to Peace, Security & Humanitarian Action
- Strengthening the Rule of Law, Human Rights & Inclusive Governance
- Innovating Environmental, including Climate, Governance
GGIN Pact Innovation Forum
Building on ideas and momentum generated at the Summit of the Future Follow-through Retreat (25-26 November 2024) at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Center, the Pact Innovation Forum is an informal multistakeholder platform that seeks to bring together governments, policy research, civil society, and private sector groups, and global and regional international organizations to realize the full potential of the Pact for the Future, Declaration on Future Generations, and Global Digital Compact’s actions and commitments. The forum proposes to innovate global governance—engendering institutional, legal, policy, operational, and normative change across the multilateral system. Its core service areas for Summit of the Future follow-through research and innovation are:
- Policy research (major reports, policy briefs, and commentaries);
- Track 1.5 global and regional policy dialogues;
- Monitoring of progress, including a Pact Monitoring Toolkit; and
- A community of practitioners, researchers, and advocates, guided by a Pact Innovation Plan.
GGIN Policy Briefs and Reports
- (5-10 pp.) highlight diverse authors’ writings on topics that stimulate debate and influence Summit of the Future preparations and follow-through and wider policy discussions on innovating future global governance, including well-thought-out strategies for change.
- Reports (30-100 pp.) present a deep-dive analysis and elaboration on proposed institutional, policy, legal, operational, and normative advances in global governance.
Global and Regional Policy Dialogues
In-person, virtual, and hybrid global and regional policy dialogues convene public intellectuals, former statespersons, and seasoned policy-makers (e.g., UN Permanent Representatives) and practitioners (e.g., from the UN’s higher echelons), alongside a new generation of analysts, policy researchers, and practitioners from the Global South and North, to address—through academically rigorous and thematically focused Track 1.5 policy exchanges—fundamental challenges, threats, and opportunities in both better understanding and enhancing how the world is governed.
>> View a select list of GGIN Publications and Policy Dialogues
GGIN Online Community of Practice
Through periodic e-consultations, a robust social media presence, and an interactive online knowledge platform, the GGIN has also forged an online community of practice. Its main aim is to facilitate a regular dialogue between scholars, policy researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners committed to understanding and addressing major gaps in global governance. These interactions are designed, in turn, to build a shared sense of community and appreciation for diverse perspectives on the future of global governance and its interplay with regional and sub-regional governance bodies.
>> To access the Global Governance Innovation Network’s online platform, please click here.
Last Updated: Thursday, 9 October 2025