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Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Research

The new genius is a collaborative genius.

In today’s global environment, we can only generate real change and innovation through collaborations across the boundaries of disciplines, national borders, and institutional and personal identities.

Northwestern Buffett brings together the brightest minds to address critical global challenges that cannot be solved from a singular disciplinary or geographical perspective. Learn about our collaborative process, which helps groups produce research ideas, projects, and publications that generate substantive solutions.

global working groups

Northwestern Buffett Global Working Groups undertake collaborative, interdisciplinary research on complex global challenges and pursue solutions to those challenges in coordination with experts and citizens worldwide. 
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR GLOBAL WORKING GROUPS