International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium, also called Collegium International, is a high-level group created in 2002.
The International Ethical, Political and Scientific Collegium is committed, according to its founders, "to respond intelligently and forcefully to the decisive challenges facing humankind". An appeal[1] calling for the Collegium's establishment was made public in February 2002 in New York and its membership was officially presented on April 2, 2003 in Brussels before the European Parliament.
Collegium members and associate members, signatories of the Appeal, are scientists, philosophers and present and former Heads of State and Government.
Co-created by Michel Rocard, a former Prime Minister of France, Milan Kučan, who at the time of the Collegium's founding served as President of the Republic of Slovenia, and Stéphane Hessel, french diplomat, the group's members[2] include:
The film-producer Sacha Goldman serves as the Collegium's Secretary General.