The Global Essay Competition (GEC) is over and the 100 best authors have been invited to the
51^st St. Gallen Symposium and got to spend a week in Switzerland. While Bryan Tan’s Essay was honoured with the 3rd price, Anton Meier submitted the 2nd best essay. Sophie Neuber has won the 51st GEC. Congratulations to all the winners!

Read the best 25 essays down below.

Anton Meier

2nd Place

“The Role of Pensions to Form the Framework of a New Intergenerational Contract”

Sophie Lara Neuber

1st Place

“Restructured Incentives: How Retirement Pensions can Become a Mechanism to Guide Environmentally Sustainable Decisions and Contribute to Solving the Intergenerational Conflict of Interests”

Bryan Kwang Shing Tan

3rd Place

“Mitigating The Intergenerational Democratic Deficit: A New Intergenerational Contract In Political Governance”

• Alya Akbar: “Advancing health equity as a norm” Read here
• Ananya Singh: “Entering the Entry-level Job Market in 2022” Read here
• Ankita Bhatkhande: “Learning for whom? The Need for an Intergenerational Dialogue in Curriculum Formulation and Revision in India.” Read here
• Anna Seidel: “Collaborative Global Future Committees to Make Intergenerational Justice a Standard Part of Legislative Scrutiny” Read here
• Constantin Prox: “Tools for change: Using platforms to enable disadvantaged groups to organize” Read here
• David Banks: “Addiction in these terms: a new social contract to heal what medicine harms” Read here
• Dominic Mills-Howell: “Hegemony, Helplessness and Hope: Understanding Generational Divides and Recouplings” Read here
• Jin Andrew: “Engineering Climate Justice – Rethinking the Roles of Scientists and Engineers in Activism” Read here
• Jingyang Kang: “Returning to the essence to resolve intergenerational conflicts” Read here
• Ka Yu Lau: “Beta Migration – Incorporating green investment into the default option of pension plans” Read here
• Laura Müller: “The Introduction of a Generations Council – Giving Future Generations a Voice” Read here
• Marco Travaglio: “Healing healthcare: new approaches to an old problem” Read here
• Nguyen Hanh: “Adding a Non-disclosure term to the “intergenerational contract”: how an anonymized idea submission process could utilize efforts across age groups towards an organization’s success” Read here
• Nicholas Parker: “Rethinking the Intergenerational Social Contract: Kindness as a Concrete and Actionable Goal” Read here
• Regina Ambe: “Let the Students Teach” Read here
• Savina Kim: “Together with AI: Envisioning a More Equitable & Fair Future” Read here
• Simon Mühlbauer: “A Universal Basic Inheritance: The promise of Empowerment” Read here
• Somdeepa Das: “Designing the Future for Intergenerational Climate Justice” Read here
• Tavis Tan: “The Role of Social and Community Organisations in Sustaining Charitable Behaviour” Read here
• Theodoros Kaloudiotis: “The New Generational Contract and the Avoidance of the ‘Dorian Gray’ Effect in the Age of Global Politics” Read here
• Xu Wang: “Bridging the Divide: Systematically Revising Our Digital Generational Contracts” Read here
• Yi Shee Gerald Teng: “A Critical Study of Filial Piety in Singapore” Read here