The next decade will define the next century.

Bridgewater has spent half a century mapping the cause-and-effect forces that shape economies and markets. Global Citizen has spent more than a decade mobilizing millions of people to act on what those forces produce. In 2022, we recognized what the other had—and what we shared: a belief that understanding the world is the precondition for changing it.

That belief has driven everything since. In the first year, we gave Bridgewater employees a platform to join the millions of Global Citizens taking action on the defining challenges of our time—from global poverty and debt relief to equality and climate financing. That advocacy, combined with Bridgewater's research into the economic potential of Africa, helped support the World Bank's IDA21 replenishment—securing a record $100 billion commitment.

Then we opened the idea meritocracy to the world: a global forecasting challenge that drew over 1,000 submissions from 120 countries.

Four years. Advocacy. Research. And now a global competition—in its second year, to find the sharpest minds on the planet. This is what the partnership looks like in practice.