Ten years later, MISTRA is proud of its contribution to South Africa’s reservoir of knowledge, and is seeking to chart its way forward for the next decade. To this end, it is convening a conference of thinkers like yourself to help identify the lessons of the last ten years, and to reaffirm MISTRA’s vision in the face of a pandemic, the Anthropocene, inequality and poverty, skewed the allocation of resources for strategic research on challenges facing humanity and the menace of geopolitics – all these and many other issues merging into a volatile mix of threat and opportunity for human civilisation.

You are invited to a conference, where leaders along with other thinkers and activists, will  identify the key challenges facing South Africa, and the most relevant areas where MISTRA can make a contribution. The conference will be open to invited guests only, and is intended to be one more milestone in MISTRA’s efforts to foster an intellectual movement committed to addressing the challenges of building a more equitable South Africa.

We would be honoured if you would join us.