SOAS, Development Leadership Dialogue (DLD)

Economic and social development requires many actors – the government, the corporate sector, civil society organizations, trade unions, international organizations, and others.

However, typically these actors have operated in separate spheres, not understanding each other well and even seeing each other as adversaries. In a world with big changes and heightened uncertainties in relation to climate change, the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution, and shifts in the global power balance, overcoming this ‘silo-ization’ and the lack of mutual understanding it leads to is ever more important.

As a part of an attempt to overcome this state of affairs, Development Leadership Dialogue (DLD) brings people (both current and future leaders) and disciplines together in dialogue. Our aim is to generate more effective and inclusive development strategies through workshops, high-level dialogues, annual lectures, conversations, and bespoke activities.