Advancing how humanity thinks in order to change what humanity builds.
Founded in 1961, Gold Mercury is a pioneering international institution dedicated to advancing the civilisational capacity to shape our future. Through Future Worldbuilding®, Gold Mercury helps leaders, enterprises and institutions envision, design and build the ideas, systems, institutions, enterprises and industries upon which our shared future depends.
Gold Mercury is the Institution for Future Worldbuilding.
For more than six decades, Gold Mercury has recognised and convened Megavisionary Leaders® — those who Govern from the Future® — from government, business, international institutions and civil society.
OUR FOUR PILLARS
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
The discipline of governing with a long-horizon perspective—envisioning, designing and stewarding the systems, enterprises and institutions upon which humanity's future depends.
Gold Mercury advances Visionary Governance® to help leaders anticipate change, navigate complexity and Govern from the Future®.
MEGAVISIONARY INTELLIGENCE®
The uniquely human cognitive capability to perceive emerging realities, organise complexity across longer time horizons, and envision future possibilities that others cannot yet see.
Gold Mercury identified this capability through more than six decades of observing exceptional leadership.
FUTURE WORLDBUILDING®
Humanity's civilisational endeavour to deliberately envision, design and build the systems, institutions, enterprises and technologies upon which humanity's future depends.
Gold Mercury advances Future Worldbuilding® by strengthening the leadership and international cooperation required to shape a better future.
THE MEGAVISIONARY SYSTEM®
The integrated system for developing Megavisionary Intelligence®.
Developed by Gold Mercury, the Megavisionary System® equips leaders and organisations with the capabilities needed to practise Visionary Governance®.
BECOME A GUARDIAN OF THE FUTURE
THE GOLD MERCURY MEGAVISIONARY CONSTELLATION
A global ecosystem of leaders, founders, enterprises, nations and institutions advancing Future Worldbuilding® and Planetary Futures®.
MEGAVISIONARY PARTNERS
Enterprises and organisations that support Gold Mercury's mission and apply Future Worldbuilding® capabilities to shape their own futures and contribute to humanity's future.
MEGAVISIONARY FORCE
Founders, entrepreneurs and pioneers building the enterprises, technologies and solutions required for humanity's long-horizon future.
MEGAVISIONARY ALLIANCE
Nations, institutions and global leaders collaborating to advance Visionary Governance®, international cooperation and long-horizon planetary stewardship.
The Global Governance Monitoring System®
MISSION CONTROL FOR PLANET EARTH
GLOGO® is Gold Mercury's planetary intelligence system for organising complexity and understanding the forces shaping humanity's future.
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THE GOLD MERCURY AWARDS
Since 1961, the Gold Mercury Awards® have been the pioneering recognition for Visionary Governance®, honouring the leaders, nations and institutions whose long-term thinking and stewardship are shaping humanity's future.
Gold Mercury Award 2025
Dharamsala, Indian Himalayas
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In the year he marks his 90th birthday, Gold Mercury has awarded the Gold Mercury Visionary Governance Award 2025 to His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to peace, non-violence, wisdom culture, and environmental stewardship.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
Defining the frameworks that govern the future.
Explore Gold Mercury’s Visionary Governance® capability to provide strategic foresight for global visioneering, cooperation and decision-making.
Nicolas De Santis,
PresIdent, Gold Mercury
Keynote at Türkiye Republic's 100th Anniversary Summit
NATION BUILDING
Gold Mercury President Meets Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, in Tirana.
MEGAVISIONARY SYSTEM
The system for developing Megavisionary Intelligence®
INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS
Gold Mercury Delegation Honoured by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile in Dharamsala, India.
GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE
Gold Mercury partners with Indian NGO Offer to help fund a new hospital for children with HIV.
OUR GLOBAL COUNCIL NETWORK
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Protecting and upholding the rule of law with King Felipe VI Of Spain.
GLOBAL HEALTH
World leading global ageing scientists join Gold Mercury Advisory Board
TECH MEETINGS AT GOLD MERCURY
Vint Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist & Father of the Internet visits Gold Mercury.
FROM THE GOLD MERCURY WORLD
GLOBAL PEACE AND SECURITY
Professor Peter Lee joins Gold Mercury Board. Author and Global expert on the Ethics of War.
IN MEMORIAM FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA
Gold Mercury board member Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director-General of UNESCO.
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Gold Mercury International supports the United Nations initiative Pact for The Future.
Join the Gold Mercury Visionary Governance Community
If you believe that visioneering the future can protect the present, you belong with us!
