The 38th St. Gallen Symposium
University of St. Gallen
Switzerland
15–17 May 2008

Global Capitalism – Local Values

St. Gallen Symposium

Christine Lagarde, France, and
Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize Laureate


Dr. Seyed Mohammad Khatami engaged in a debate with a student


The St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s leading platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and civil society.


Every year in May for over 35 years, it has brought together a global target group of entrepreneurs, top managers, politicians, academics, decision-makers from civil society and students at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, providing an inspirational setting for open, interdisciplinary discussions across boundaries of cultures and generations.


As an entrepreneurial initiative of the International Students’ Committee (ISC) St. Gallen, the aim of the St. Gallen Symposium is to stimulate thought and action for the sustained success of companies and societies in a globalised world.