Designing a livable world:
Practical tools for entangled risks

Horizon 2045 works with leaders in governance, security, and philanthropy to turn insight about compounding challenges into decision frameworks, institutional capabilities, and funding strategies for wiser long-term decision-making.

The systems, laws, and policies we live with are neither neutral nor permanent. Left unchanged, they will continue to produce outcomes shaped by choices made decades ago, under conditions very different from our own. Those choices remain visible in what we protect, whose knowledge we value, how we share power, and whether we address problems independently or as part of a larger whole.

We can feel the pressures converge: climate disruption, nuclear risk, bio-threats, economic insecurity, powerful technologies, and fragile democracies. Young people are already living with the consequences—and with institutions still built to tackle these pressures in isolation.

We work with leaders who are ready to respond with more integrated ways of governing and investing, for the long-term security and wellbeing of people, communities, and ecosystems. We use foresight to explore how change may unfold across possible futures and design methodology to turn that understanding into practical possibilities: laws, institutions, tools, and shared action that make better futures more likely.

Visionary leaders have redesigned the world's institutions before. In the space of five years after the Second World War, they built an architecture for cooperation: the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

That architecture sorted the world's problems into separate mandates: peace here, health there, finance elsewhere. Today's threats cross borders, sectors, and generations, and they compound one another. The design challenge now is to understand how these domains intersect, so we can make decisions that mitigate harm and enhance security across them.

Our vision: A future in which global security is broadly understood as the commitment to creating and safeguarding the conditions in which people and living systems flourish.

Horizon 2045 Programs

Together, these programs bring the institutional imagination, practical tools, and aligned resources needed to meet interconnected challenges with greater coherence and care.

Security

Governance

Philanthropy

Security

Governance

Philanthropy


50

BY THE NUMBERS

NEARLY

High profile international women leaders and former heads of state engaged in redefining global security for the long-term future

250+

Organizations engaged across nuclear, climate, democracy, health, and philanthropy sectors

$37B

Combined assets (USD) of funders participating in a pilot program on the future of philanthropy

70+

Legal experts involved in strategies to safeguard human and planetary security via international courts and tribunals


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