Our President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, (Latvia), and Members Joyce Banda (Malawi) and Kim Campbell (Canada) Helen Clark (New Zealand), are four women that have led their countries and are still playing a relevant role in the international sphere. On the occasion of the International Women's Day 2018...

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on Women’s Day: “Dear girls & women: follow fearlessly the path that each of you have chosen as your own!”
Message from Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on the occasion of the Women's International Day On this 8 March, the official Women's day adopted by the United Nations, I send my warmest greetings of universal sisterhood to girls and women across the world. I celebrate the achievements of all the talented,...

Club de Madrid Members Kok and Lagumdzija advocate for inclusive societies in London and Oxford
Wim Kok - former PM of the Netherlands - and Zlatko Lagumdzija- former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina - recently led a mission to London and Oxford as part of the project Shared Societies. The theme of the mission was Strategy on Environmental Sustainability and Shared Societies. The mission led...
Delivering Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Conference in New Delhi
The speakers touched on elements that are necessary and taken together they may indicate the requirements of an...
Eastern Europe’s Post-communist Transformations
The countries that today are part of the European Union are today solid democracies with relatively low inequality....
Shared Societies International Workshop in Maastricht
The Club de Madrid and the Maastricht School of Management brought together a group of academics and practitioners...
Aung San Suu Kyi: “We hope this will be the beginning of a new era for Myanmar”
In her victory speech Aung San Suu Kyi hailed a "new era" for Myanmar - previously called Burma - and called...
Finding Ways to Walk Together dialogue initiative in South Africa
The initiative aims to build a critical analysis of the quality and impact of current dialogue efforts; what the...
Club de Madrid engagement in the LEND Network
This network aims to establish an e-platform that will support, in an initial phase, Tunisian and Moldavian political...
Live Streaming: Shared Societies Workshop
A shared society is one in which individuals share an equal capacity to participate in economic, political and...
Statement of the Club de Madrid on the coup d’état in Mali
Members of the Club de Madrid, all former democratic Heads of State and Government, are aware of the progress made in...
Statement of the Club de Madrid on the political situation in the Maldives
Members of the Club de Madrid, all former democratic Heads of State and Government, are aware of the progress made in...