Matthew Rycroft

Senior Diplomat and Civil Servant, UK Government

Sir Matthew Rycroft has recently started an advisory career in the private sector following 35 years as a UK Civil Servant. His most recent positions were as UK Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development, and most recently Permanent Secretary of the Home Office.

Before that he was the COO for the Foreign Office, the Prime Minister’s private secretary for foreign affairs, and the Ambassador to Bosnia.

Speaking at

Parallel Lab 4 Fueling Futures: Empowering Youth via Education and Food System

4月18日, 下午2:30 - 下午4:00
SANGHA Movement Center

At a time when the future feels increasingly uncertain, the question is no longer how we prepare the next generation for existing systems, but how we enable them to reimagine and regenerate the systems themselves. This lab explores the intersection of youth education, food systems, and human wellbeing not as separate domains, but as deeply interconnected foundations of a life-centred economy. If education shapes how we see the world, food systems shape how we relate to nature, and well-being shapes how we show up as human beings, then the future we are building depends on how these three evolve together. This session invites participants to move beyond fragmented interventions and ask: How do we cultivate a generation that can think in systems, act with responsibility, and build futures where both people and planet can flourish?

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Closing Fireside Chat | Love as a Bridge between East and West

4月19日, 上午11:30 - 下午1:00
Town Hall

Having explored the civilisational depth and practical pathways of a Well-being Economy, we arrive at the confluence of our journey. In an era defined by geopolitical fragmentation and compounding challenges, no single civilisation or economy can thrive in isolation. The traditional logic of 'zero-sum games' has reached its limit, depleting our natural resources while fracturing the essential connections of human civilisation. We face an inescapable truth: humanity is not a collection of separate islands, but a deeply coupled and singular living community with a shared destiny. This closing dialogue seeks to reshape the fundamental consensus across Eastern and Western boundaries. Systemic challenges demand a civilisational awakening. To transcend barriers and divisions, we must move beyond short-term calculations, establishing 'Love as Infrastructure'—the ultimate foundation for global governance and transnational collaboration. By gathering leading thinkers and practitioners, we explore how to seamlessly align China’s experience as a 'Regenerative Laboratory' with the collective aspirations of humanity. This is more than a search for cross-sector solutions; it is a collective effort to author the next chapter of human civilisation—returning capital to the service of life and ensuring 'Love' becomes the very fabric of our institutional and economic systems.

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