As the world is engulfed by a rising flood of environmental, political and economic conflicts, are we in danger of being swallowed by never-ending disaster? How can uncertainty and risk shape positive communal change and help leaders to navigate the polycrisis?
These questions are at the heart of CHL's 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference: Transformative leadership in times of polycrisis.
As the number of people living in crisis continues to break records, with more than 300 million people in need of life-saving assistance and billions more in or on the edge of extreme poverty, the climate emergency and polarising and inequitable political-economic systems are compounding and growing the problem.
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 Humanitarian Leadership Conference is hosted by the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership in partnership with the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.
A hybrid format for maximum engagement
We're thrilled to announce that the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference will be hosted in Doha, Qatar. From April 8-9, delegates will gather at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, home to the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, or can stream all the action from our dedicated digital conference platform.
Abstract submissions
Abstract submissions are open till 6 January 2025. Please keep checking this page for updates and subscribe to the CHL newsletter to be the first to hear HLC announcements.
Sponsor the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference
CHL and CHS are looking for like-minded organisations to sponsor the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference.
The Humanitarian Leadership Conference is a recognised event for challenging conversations. Every two years, the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership leverages its unique position at the intersection of academia and practice to convene humanitarian leaders from across the sector to disrupt the usual discussions and create space for emerging and insightful analysis.
In 2025, CHL is combining forces with the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) to open the discussion and debate to new audiences in the Middle East region and globally.
Established in 2016, the CHS is an independent research center based in Doha, Qatar. The Center produces research, informs policy, enhances capacities of local, regional and international actors, and multi-track dialogue for peacemaking.
Sponsors gain visibility and connections with a diverse range of conference speakers and participants, in addition to noticeably demonstrating their solidarity with leaders who are seeking to disrupt the polycrisis with a focus on the human aspects of leadership.
The 2025 HLC brings together traditional and non-traditional perspectives from the Global South and North to discuss how leaders can move beyond systemic inertia towards affecting real-world change.
Email our team at events@cfhl.org.au to request a copy of the 2025 Sponsorship Prospectus.
Fore more information, please visit Center for Humanitarian Leadership website