by Michael Sheldrick | Dec 28, 2023 | Human Rights, Leadership
Earlier this month, Pope Francis made headlines by giving the green light for Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. It triggered a spectrum of responses ranging from praise to accusations of ‘blasphemy.’ Some termed it ‘radical,’...
by Michael Sheldrick | Dec 22, 2023 | International Politics
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left Washington last week without the assurances he sought. The 2024 outlook for Ukraine appears gloomy, with ongoing elections in the U.S. and the European Union potentially complicating the prospects of additional aid...
by Michael Sheldrick | Nov 30, 2023 | Leadership
Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in a conference at Ditchley Park, a stately mansion in Oxfordshire, England, which has gained recent recognition as the setting for the residence of the Foreign Secretary in Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat.’...
by Michael Sheldrick | Oct 30, 2023 | Finance
This month, Morocco hosted the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, a global gathering of financial heavyweights featuring finance ministers and central bankers from all of the world’s major economies. Foremost on their agenda was...
by Michael Sheldrick | Oct 23, 2023 | Leadership
With so much conflict, division and crisis happening in the world today, it is easy to despair and think that the individual interventions that add up to progress in the fight against poverty and equality don’t matter. They do. Amidst the doom and gloom narratives...