Kelso Institute Europe

How in a technologically advanced society are average people to earn a living? For more than two decades, the Kelso Institute has provided a forum in San Francisco to seek an answer to this question. Today, with automation and robotisation gaining pace and in the light of the climate crisis we are confronted with ever more pressing challenges inextricably linked with this query. Pivotal in this context are the energy and digital twin transitions, the trajectory to a climate neutral circular society but also the future of democracy in the age of the internet. To reply to these challenges we need fresh minds, creative ideas and awareness among – above all – young people yet in their education. 

In this light it is the endeavour of the Kelso Institute Europe to facilitate both a sustainable Energy Transition including Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewables, and to further broaden Employee Financial Participation. The work program, therefore, lie on questions of ownership and privatisation, insolvency and restructuring, digitisation and ICT, and financial crises and their impact on the Welfare State.