Applications for the 2025 Global Leadership Challenge are still being accepted. Interested candidates are urged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
About Global Leadership Challenge
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: September 29, 2025
- Application Deadline: November 02, 2025
- Category: Fully Funded
- Oppotunity Locations: Switzerland
The Global Leadership Challenge 2025 will convene 100 young leaders selected through an open application process. Applicants will be evaluated on their passion for engaging with complex global challenges. We are looking for a diverse group of postgraduate students and young professionals who are ready to rise to the challenges of our time and develop themselves as the responsible leaders our world desperately needs now.
GLC Members can participate virtually from around the world.
Benefits of Global Leadership Challenge
- Earn a Certificate of Achievement from the University of Oxford and the St. Gallen Symposium. It is a Joint initiative.
- Receive exclusive mentorship after GLC.
- Win an invitation to attend the 55th St Gallen Symposium in May 2026.
- Engage with world-renowned experts.
- Develop SDG action projects using design thinking.
- Learn responsible leadership that benefits society.
- Join a global community of young leaders.
Global Leadership Challenge Requirements
- You are eligible if you are a student and enrolled in a Master’s or a PhD program.
- You are eligible if you are a young professional (aged between 21 and 30 years).
- You must have completed your undergraduate studies.
- You’ve shown your leadership skills through extracurricular activities or work.
- The Global Leadership Challenge is open to applicants from all countries and in all fields.
Application Date and Process
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Application Deadline
02 November, 2025
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