Hess Center for New Frontiers

The Hess Center for New Frontiers explores the megatrends shaping the future geopolitical landscape and empowers decisionmakers to solve for tomorrow’s challenges today

Forging the Future, Today

The Hess Center for New Frontiers connects leaders in government, civil society, and business with world-class CSIS research on the macrotrends and forces shaping the future global landscape. Through its flagship presentation, New Frontiers: Five Megatrends That Will Define Our Future, and suite of hands-on strategy and foresight workshops, the Hess Center provides decisionmakers with a deeper look at today’s drivers of change and a toolkit to prepare for tomorrow.

The pace of change is accelerating, and tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities have never been more interconnected. The Hess Center for New Frontiers brings together CSIS’s research and analysis, educational platform, and convening power to:

Explore the most important macrotrends shaping our world out to the year 2100 with top CSIS experts and world leaders through a dynamic, 45-minute presentation, New Frontiers: Five Megatrends That Will Define Our Future. Learn more.

Discover how the intersections between today’s most transformational forces are reshaping the global landscape through CSIS’s innovative, data-driven analysis on:

  • Global demographics
  • Water and food security
  • Energy and sustainability
  • Technological innovation
  • Geopolitics and world order

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Earn a certificate in Strategic Foresight or enhance your long-term planning toolkit through a suite of hands-on courses powered by CSIS Executive Education. Register now

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Big picture. Big ideas

From preparing your organization for social, economic, technological, and geopolitical disruption to cultivating resilient leaders and strategic thinkers, New Frontiers provides teams, membership groups, and boards with big picture perspectives and insights that spark big ideas. Contact Eric Palomaa at epalomaa@csis.org to learn more about requesting a presentation and workshop.

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Audio Briefs

Older and Wiser: Defining NATO’s Strategy for Global Aging

An audio version of “Older and Wiser: Defining NATO’s Strategy for Global Aging,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Eric Palomaa. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Eric Palomaa — July 17, 2024

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Older and Wiser: Defining NATO’s Strategy for Global Aging

In the future, global aging will require NATO to reassess operational readiness, recruitment, and resilience through the deployment of innovative policies that account for shrinking workforces and aging populations at home and new population centers abroad.

Commentary by Eric Palomaa — July 12, 2024

CSIS Launches Hess Center for New Frontiers

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) announced the establishment of the Hess Center for New Frontiers. The new Center is strategically designed to inform and connect leaders in government, civil society, and business with world-class CSIS research on the macrotrends and forces shaping the global landscape over the next century.

Press Release — May 16, 2023

Peter Scoblic

Senior Associate (Non-resident), Hess Center for New Frontiers

Non-resident Expert