We are pleased to release our 2024-2025 annual report – a year dedicated to 'Re-thinking Capitalism'. Our fourth cohort brought together 55 international fellows (69 academics and 31 practitioners from 20 countries) to interrogate capitalism's foundations, limits, and alternatives through six groundbreaking programs: Futures of Capitalism, Africapitalism, Beyond Capitalism, The Future of Food, Planetary Governance, and Bitter Victory.

This year yielded transformative outcomes: the Nigerian government officially adopted the OKOBI initiative as a national poverty-fighting strategy; our fellows laid the groundwork for an International Court of the Environment and a Global Environment Agency; and they produced comprehensive reports on achieving just and sustainable food systems. We also put ideas into action, resulting in a substantial body of academic publications and public interventions and establishing a broad network of global thinkers and practitioners committed to a more just and democratic future. Enjoy browsing!

We are pleased to release our 2023-2024 annual report, which captures a year of intellectual risk-taking, creative friction – and, most importantly, the urgent pursuit of a more just and sustainable future. Our third cohort of fellows convened 46 international scholars and practitioners working on topics such as depolarizing public debates, reimagining the commons, applying Black feminist perspectives to the polycrisis, governing the planetary commons, and redefining human flourishing. And we put our ideas into action – resulting in more than 50 academic publications, 86 events, and 100 public appearances. Enjoy browsing!

The Annual Report for the Academic Year 2022–2023 represents the first year of operation of our new Academic Directors, Markus Gabriel and Anna Katsman, during which a new program logic was implemented. The report covers the Academic Year from September 2022 to the end of June 2023. Learn more about our three research areas and two new programs, “Depolarizing Public Debates” and “Governing the Planetary Commons”. The foreword was written by our Academic Directors.

In this report, with a foreword by our Founding Director Wilhelm Krull, we outline the evolution of our program and research architecture in the founding and construction phase, as it entered its second full year of fellowship work in 2022. Learn more about our foundational programs “The Foundation of Value and Values”, “The Future of Democracy”, and “Socio-Economic Transformation”, meet our first cohort of fellows and read about events from the early days of THE NEW INSTITUTE.