Welcoming remarks – 13.30 CEST

Dominic Schwickert, Executive Director, Das Progressive Zentrum

Introducing the Summit Action Paper

Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy, and Social Innovation at the University College London

Response by: Janka Oertel, Director of the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Chair: Karin Petterson, Culture Editor at Aftonbladet

Conversation between Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau and Helle Thorning-Schmidt – 14.30 CEST

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that change is possible, but that progress requires action. Our post-Covid economic recovery must be based on justice and strengthening democratic institutions. Just before the G7 Summit, join Justin Trudeau, Olaf Scholz and Helle Thorning-Schmidt as they discuss how progressive values can shape our democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a decade of progress.

Olaf Scholz, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance of Germany

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Former Prime Minister of Denmark

with an input by Francesca Bria, President of the Italian National Innovation Fund

Chair: Sonia Sodha, Columnist and author