An independent, non-profit organization with a mission to overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities
Salzburg Global is where open-minded leaders from around the world gather for breakthrough conversations on pressing global issues.
We have gathered over 40,000 Fellows from more than 170 countries across 1,100 sessions that create spaces where divergent voices can change the conversation and address the big challenges of our time.
Our very first session in 1947 brought together over 100 young Europeans and Americans – including survivors of concentration camps, veterans of resistance movements, prisoners of war, and former enemies. They met at Schloss Leopoldskron, an Austrian palace that had been occupied by the Nazis, in a country that was still under Allied military control. They wrestled with how diverse and fractured groups of people could come together and start creating the conditions for peace in the aftermath of World War II.
More than 75 years later, the challenges may be different, but our mission still carries that same founding spirit: To overcome barriers and open up a world of better possibilities.