The “Future Leaders Academy” is a programme hosted at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga), organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Latvia and the Swedish Institute.

Dates for the five modules of the Future Leaders Academy 2024 will be:

• October 11-13,
• October 25-27,
• November 1-3,
• November 22-24,
• November 29-December 1.

Application for the Future Leaders Academy 2024 is available here. The application deadline is August 19, 2024.

Applicants will be notified of the selection committee's decision in early September. 
 

Purpose and Aim

The program aims to educate, inspire, and develop the leadership potential of Latvia's future political and community leaders. We seek applicants with a strong interest and demonstrated commitment to the future development of Latvia in any field.

By bringing together talented young leaders from all over Latvia, representing different regions and backgrounds, allowing them to meet and develop ideas amongst themselves, and further introducing them to existing Latvian experts and politicians, the aim is to help them grow their contact networks for future success.

The programme's working language is Latvian, with some modules in English.
 

Participants and Selection

Candidates must submit an electronic application on the SSE Riga website, including their CV and a short 2-minute motivation video (in Latvian or English). Twenty participants for the programme are selected each year. Programme participants range in age from 18-27. For each class of the Future Leaders Academy, the selection committee strives for diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, and regional background.
 

Format and Lecturers

The programme is held over five weekends – Friday evenings 17:30-21:00, Saturday 10:00-17:00, and Sunday 10:00-15:00.

Last year during the Academy the current and former President of Latvia spoke (H.E. Edgars Rinkēvičs and H.E. Valdis Zatlers), as did the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Science and Education, in addition to the former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and current Ministers of Foreign Affairs, various journalists, economists, SSE Riga faculty, practitioners of artificial intelligence also take part in the programme as guest lecturers.

Training modules are hosted by LTV journalist Ilze Dobele, European Public Speaking Champion Dāvis Golds, board members of Quo Tu Domā? and others.

During the programme, FLA participants develop and pitch a team project idea to a jury comprised of distinguished Latvian decision-makers.
 

Participant Feedback 2023

Participants would recommend to others (out of 10) – 9.43