Alliance of Global Talent Organizations Beijing Office Opening
July 03 , 2025
On June 27, the 2025 Global Talent Summit was held at the Beijing International Fortune Center in Tongzhou, the sub-center of Beijing. This summit was co-hosted by the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO) and the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). During the summit, the Beijing Office of AGTO was officially inaugurated, becoming a major highlight of the event and attracting widespread attention from all sectors.
The summit brought together ambassadors and diplomats from countries including Pakistan, Iceland, Latvia, Morocco, Portugal, and Estonia, as well as over a hundred representatives and experts from the United Nations system, international organizations, universities, multinational corporations, and talent service agencies to jointly explore new trends in global talent governance and innovative paths for cooperation.
Before and after the summit’s opening, Denis Simon, President of AGTO and Former Executive Vice President of Duke Kunshan University; Henry Huiyao Wang, Secretary-General of AGTO and Founder and President of CCG; and Mabel Lu MIAO, Chief Representative of the AGTO Beijing Representative Office and Secretary-General of CCG, together with officials from relevant Beijing municipal government departments and ambassadors from multiple countries stationed in China, paid a special visit to the newly inaugurated AGTO Beijing Office. The delegation toured the new space, viewed the AGTO International Talent Exchange Activity Display Wall, and learned about AGTO’s key achievements and future vision in global talent policy, cross-border cooperation, and talent development agendas.
The official inauguration of the AGTO Beijing Office marks the establishment of a permanent institution and exchange hub for this global talent cooperation network in China’s capital. It injects new momentum into the ongoing promotion of global talent mobility, supports China’s high-level opening-up, and deepens cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the world.
As an idea incubated at the Paris Peace Forum, the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO) is an international non-governmental organization established to facilitate and promote the talent flow.
Initiated by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and supported by academic institutions, civil society and the private sector, AGTO aims building an international platform to promote global governance innovation on talent.
AGTO’s objectives include: holding the Global Talent Conference to form global consensus on talent cooperation, to build collaboration platforms for organizations, forge a “Talent Davos”; conducting researches, publish Global Talent Reports, introduce and connect the best practices in the fields, and provide talent training for international organizations.
In the future, AGTO wants to create the talent credentialing services, establish a big data Centre for global talents, and other works.
