Submit your presentation idea for the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference: Transformative leadership in times of polycrisis

The 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference will focus on the very human element of leadership: of who takes risks and how they can make real, positive change. Disrupting the usual discussions and creating space for emerging and insightful analysis, the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference will explore the multiple aspects and impacts of the polycrisis as well as the multi-faceted nature and influence of transformative leadership. It will showcase the increasing reality of diverse leadership and its capacity to navigate and affect positive change in crises around the world.

The 2025 HLC will take place in Doha, Qatar, from April 8-9, 2025, with virtual attendance options. Submissions to present are being accepted up until January 6, 2025.

How to register

Applications to present at the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference are now open.

We’re calling for proposals from those with lived experience of the polycrisis and transformative leadership, as well as from researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners. This includes people working in humanitarian operations, in disaster risk management, and in international and national political economies.

Submissions (abstracts) should be no longer than 500 words in length. We will accept proposals in languages other than English, however please note that Google Translate will be used to translate abstracts to English for reviewers, as such abstracts will not be weighted on the English but the content.

Visit https://www.centreforhumanitarianleadership.org/the-centre/events/2025-humanitarian-leadership-conference/ to learn more and submit your idea.