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(from left to right) Maria Ivanova, President Joseph Aoun, Rector Tshilidzi Marwala, and Dr. David Passarelli.

United Nations University, April 2025

A new partnership between Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs (Policy School) and the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), formalized today with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), will harness advanced data visualization and other areas of expertise to promote global governance solutions and address growing pressures on the multilateral system.

Collaboration will focus on a new multi-year initiative managed by UNU-CPR – the Global Governance Innovation Platform – which will identify, explore and visualize innovative governance practices, serving as templates for new multilateral institutions and platforms or inspiring reforms to existing ones.

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