Fernando Henrique Cardoso - President of Brazil (1995-2003), Member and President (2003-2006) of the Club de Madrid wins the prestigious John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity awarded by the Library of Congress (United States).

The Club de Madrid expresses its sincerest congratulations on this occasion to Fernando Henrique Cardoso. As James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, said when announcing the prize: “It’s not just that he’s the first person with a personal political career of consequence to win this award, it’s that he is also a full representative of what we call a social scientist. If you want to make an American comparison, he is like Jefferson, playing a key role in building a democracy on a scholarly foundation.” 

In a key moment for the design of national and international policies that drive growth in the context of global economic crisis, the Club de Madrid and the Mexican Presidency of the G20, with the help of AeroMéxico and Acciona, organized a roundtable on April 30th 2012 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico to identify and discuss recommendations on this issue, which is of vital importance for the G20 agenda and a top priority for the Mexican presidency. The recommendations will be handed in by Dra. Lourdes Aranda, Mexican Sherpa to the G20, to President Felipe Calderón before the upcoming G20 Summit in Los Cabos in June , and will be delivered to the G20 Development Working Group´s.

Download the Club de Madrid recommendations to the G20 on the Green Growth Agenda

The Club de Madrid, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Center of Concern´s Rethinking Bretton Woods Project jointly organised a Conference on “A Global Shared Societies Agenda: A Strategy to promote social cohesion for sustainable development and growth” at the IMF-WBG Spring Meetings in April, 22nd, 2012 co-chaired by Club de Madrid Members John Bruton and Petre Roman and IMF’s Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy and Review Department, Hugh Bredenkamp. The meeting’s goal was to promote discussion among influential current and former policymakers and key thinkers in the context of the 2012 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Club de Madrid Members meet with H.E. Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Government of the State of New Delhi and with Doctor Pachauri, Director General of TERI

In collaboration with SAPRI, the foundation led by Member Kumaratunga, and the Centre for Policy Research, the Club de Madrid – in the framework of its Shared Societies Project - held a Conference in New Delhi on “Delivering Inclusive and Sustainable Development” in April, 9 and 10 2012 to tackle the current challenges of reaching economic strength and resilience, while maintaining economic dynamism, political stability and building Shared societies in South Asia. Members Luis Alberto Lacalle, Andrés Pastrana and Cassam Uteem have participated as speakers, as well as Yaga Venugopal Reddy, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and member of NetPLUSS, Steve Killelea, Chair of the Institute for Economics and Peace and Sean Carroll, Chief Operation Officer and Member of the SSP Expert Advisory Group.

Two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, several of the former communist republics have developed consolidated democratic systems, functioning market economies and efficient democratic states and welfare policies. Others don’t share this democratic standards and the political system still looks like before 1991.