Global Leaders Institute

The Global Leaders Institute (GLI) is an executive education graduate school for social entrepreneurship in the arts headquartered in Washington DC with seasonal offices in Chile and Poland.

Academic Curators
The Global Leaders Institute offers a 12-month Executive MBA in Arts Innovation focused on social entrepreneurship, cultural management, sustainable impact, and community development. Courses are co-curated by nine institutions of higher learning: Harvard University, Duke University, Georgetown University, McGill University, New York University, Bard College, Stanford University, The University of Chicago, and The League of American Orchestras.

International Fieldwork
GLI Cohort Members carry out immersive fieldwork in 40+ countries annually on five continents. Fieldwork site hosts include the Silkroad Ensemble Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Montréal, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Lucerne Festival, Carnegie Hall, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music, Teatro del Lago, Universidad Austral de Chile, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), Verbier Festival, Chicago Public Schools, Fundación Azteca, National Arts Centre, Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, KIPP, Sphinx Organization, National Batuta Foundation, Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Society of the Four Arts, and the Richmond Symphony, among others.

History
Nigel Clarke, Jamaica's Minister of Finance and Public Service of Jamaica, is co-founding chair of The Global Leaders Institute. In recent years, the GLI has hosted large-scale Innovation Summits in Frutillar (Chile), Panguipulli (Chile), Tuscany (Italy), Bielsko-Biala (Poland), Arequipa (Peru), and Palm Beach, Florida (United States). The GLI was established in 2013 with seed funding from The Hildegard Behrens Foundation.

Notable faculty

 * Marin Alsop | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra music director
 * Matthew Bishop | The Economist former New York bureau chief
 * Arthur C. Brooks | Harvard Kennedy School & Harvard Business School professor
 * Carla Dirlikov Canales | The Canales Project founder
 * Roberto Dañino | CXXXVIII Prime Minister of Peru
 * Hobart Earle | Odessa Philharmonic Theater music director
 * James Ehnes | Grammy Award winning Canadian violinist
 * Michael J. Feuer | National Academy of Education former president
 * Michael Gordon | Bang on a Can co-founder
 * Angel Gil-Ordoñez | PostClassical Ensemble co-founder & artistic director
 * Marcus Johnson | NAACP Image Award laureate
 * William A. Haseltine | Harvard Medical School professor
 * David Kelley | The Atlas Society founder
 * David Ludwig | Curtis Institute of Music artistic dean
 * Albrecht Mayer | Berlin Philharmonic principal oboe
 * Margaret Martin | Harmony Project founder
 * Michael McCarthy | London Oratory School Schola founder
 * Anne Midgette | The Washington Post former music critic
 * Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg | Strategic Investment Group founding chairman
 * Adam Ockelford | author & researcher
 * Gabriela Ortiz | composer & Indiana University professor
 * Frank J. Oteri | International Society for Contemporary Music vice-president
 * Tom G. Palmer | Cato Institute senior fellow
 * Ernesto Palacio | Rossini Opera Festival general director
 * Panos Panay | The Recording Academy president
 * Jasper Parrott | HarrisonParrott co-founder
 * Rafael Payare | Montreal Symphony Orchestra & San Diego Symphony music director
 * Paolo Petrocelli | Coldplay cultural advisor
 * Gabriel Prokofiev | composer & Nonclassical founder
 * André de Quadros | Boston University professor & human rights activist
 * Nirupama Rao | XXVIII Foreign Secretary of India
 * Matt Ridley | British Author & House of Lords Member (2013-2021)
 * Norman E. Rosenthal | Georgetown Medical School professor
 * Luis Szarán | Recycled Orchestra of Cateura founder
 * Doris Sommer | Harvard University professor
 * Alexandra Soumm | French violinist
 * Thomas C. Südhof | Nobel Prize laureate
 * Lars H. Thunell | The International Finance Corporation former CEO
 * Hugo Ticciati | Confidencen Sweden artistic director
 * Sergio Vela | Mexico's former Secretariat of Culture & Grupo Salinas artistic director
 * Mike Vranos | Ellington Management Group founding chairman
 * Veronica Wadley, CBE | London Arts Council chair & former editor of the Evening Standard
 * William Westney | author & Geneva International Music Competition laureate
 * Benjamin Zander | Boston Philharmonic Orchestra founder

Recent fellows

 * Maria Olga Arias | Fundación Azteca international programs director
 * Sophie Butler | Minneapolis Public Schools orchestras director
 * Rachael Cohen | Chicago Symphony Orchestra institute manager
 * Drake Driscoll | Young Concert Artists engagement manager
 * Janet Fischer | Live Music Now CEO
 * Mitsuko Flynn | Charleston Symphony Orchestra education director
 * Jackson Guillen | Houston Symphony youth orchestra CEO
 * Ivan Anthony Henares | UNESCO Philippine Commission Secretary General
 * Anna Hiemstra | Princess Christina of the Netherlands concours artistic manager
 * Claudia Curiel de Icaza | Secretariat of Culture of Mexico City (2022-)
 * Christine Lauck | Claussen-Simon-Stiftung officer
 * Toufic Maatouk | Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation deputy director
 * Maria Mathieson | Peabody Institute executive director (prep)
 * Jonathan McCormick | Chicago Symphony Orchestra director of education
 * Karoline Meneses | Loyola Marymount University head of strings
 * Maria Claudia Parias | National Batuta Foundation president (2018-2022)
 * Jessica Phillips | Metropolitan Opera principal clarinet
 * Lia Uribe | University of Arkansas music chair
 * Nancy Usher | University of Nevada, Las Vegas dean of music
 * Ignacio Barron Viela | Billings Symphony executive director
 * Emmanuel Vukovich | Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition gold medalist
 * Laura Jane Yee | Harmony Project national workshops manager
 * Scott Wilson | Guildhall School conducting faculty