The Evian Group at IMD is an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, committed to fostering an open, inclusive, equitable and sustainable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework.
The Evian Group activities are aimed at: • Confidence building and knowledge creation among its members, stakeholders and constituents; • Establishing vision and direction by formulating agendas for action; • Enhancing global business leadership and business statesmanship; • Influencing policy makers; • Diffusing Evian Group ideas and intellectual capital as widely as possible; • Preparing the next generation of industry, government and opinion leaders throughout the world for the challenges and tasks they will need to face.
To achieve these goals, The Evian Group activities are based on three key pillars: Open dialogue, the exchange of ideas and aspirations, and an agenda for action are facilitated and promoted through The Evian Group plenary meetings and roundtables, regularly and quite frequently convened in Europe, the Arab Region, South Asia and Greater China, and occasionally in Sub-Saharan Africa and both North and South America.
OWI supports open societies, greater integration and responsible governance on the global, national and corporate and institutional levels as indispensable to achieving these goals.
The principles OWI stands to defend are: • Transparent and responsible global governance on a global, national, corporate, financial and individual level; • Sustainable economic growth generated by open markets in a manner protective of societies, natural resources and the environment; • The primary role of the private sector in promoting growth under ethical and socially responsible codes; • Investment in human development, the empowerment of women and youth, and the enhancement of individual freedoms; • An open world economy that creates a fairer and more tolerant open society, one that promotes cross cultural and intellectual fertilisation.