Gold Mercury is the Institution for Future Worldbuilding®.
Advancing humanity's capacity to envision, design, build and govern planetary futures.
Building the Intellectual Foundations for the Future
For more than six decades, Gold Mercury has served as an independent institution and intellectual platform for Megavisionary Leaders from government, business, academia and civil society. Today, through the Gold Mercury Awards®, research, and high-level dialogue, we develop and advance new ideas, visions, and intellectual frameworks; strengthen global cooperation; and champion the principles of Visionary Governance® that underpin a more peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future.
GOLD MERCURY AWARDS FOR PEACE & SECURITY
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PROTECTING A YOUNG DEMOCRACY
King Juan Carlos I of Spain receiving the Gold Mercury Award® from Eduardo De Santis, Founder of Gold Mercury. King Juan Carlos played a decisive role in defending Spain's democratic transition during the attempted coup d'état of 1981.
GOLD MERCURY AWARDS FOR TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCING ELECTRONICS
Akio Morita, Founder and Chairman of Sony Corporation, received the Gold Mercury Award® in 1973 for his pioneering contribution to the advancement of electronics and display technologies.
Future Worldbuilding®
The Future, By Design.
The first strategic discipline dedicated to the conscious design of humanity's long-term future.
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Latest News From the World of Gold Mercury
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MEGAVISIONARY TECHNOLOGIES
Gold Mercury launches the DISRAPTOR Task Force on Megavisionary Technologies®, a global strategic initiative dedicated to monitoring, anticipating and shaping the impact of artificial intelligence, exponential technologies and human augmentation on industries, governance, civilisation and planetary futures.
GOLD MERCURY BRAIN HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
Gold Mercury becomes an Industry Partner of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre, advancing collaboration on brain health innovation, research and future healthcare.
MEGAVISIONARY COUNCIL
Susan B. Eirich, PhD, founder of Earthfire Institute Wildlife Sanctuary, joins the Gold Mercury Megavisionary Council.
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
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.
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
GOLD MERCURY ACADEMY®
Cultivating the Next Generation of Megavisionary Leaders®
The Gold Mercury Academy cultivates Megavisionary Leaders by developing the cognitive capacity for Future Worldbuilding® through the Megavisionary System®—an integrated framework for imagining, designing, building and Governing from the Future®.
VISIONARY GOVERNANCE®
Los Angeles shows that Homelessness can be reduced through Visionary Governance.
Inside Safe: How Los Angeles Is Rebuilding Its Reputation One Encampment at a Time
The cognitive capacity for civilisational-scale
Future Worldbuilding®.
The Global Governance Monitoring System®
MISSION CONTROL FOR PLANET EARTH
GLOGO® is Gold Mercury's planetary intelligence system for organising complexity and the forces shaping humanity's future.
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Three techno-human future trajectories in the disruptive age of AI
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Our global community of Megavisionary leaders, founders, enterprises, nations and institutions committed to advancing Future Worldbuilding® and shaping humanity's future.
TECHNOLOGICAL PATHWAYS
Disraptor Task Force on Megavisionary Technologies
The DISRAPTOR Task Force helps leaders anticipate, understand and shape the transformative impact of exponential technologies, artificial intelligence and human augmentation on governance, enterprises, societies and planetary futures.
NATION BUILDING
Gold Mercury President Meets Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, in Tirana.
INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS
Gold Mercury Delegation Honoured by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile in Dharamsala, India.
FROM OUR PROTECTORES FUTURI® 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.
NEWSROOM
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.
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