This year’s conference promises to be yet another eventful gathering of scholars in public and political leadership from around the world.This year’s conference theme is ‘Leadership in a Changing Environment‘. With this theme, we want to explore leadership challenges that arise from rapid change, such as crisis management and dealing with technological change on markets, but also those that concern more slow-burning, structural issues such as negotiating multilateral framework agreements to combat climate change, to limit disaster risk and to facilitate international trade. Other intriguing topics within the realm of Leadership in a Changing Environment involve the changes emanating from leadership transitions and leadership challenges relating to public, organizational and corporate values and losses in market/public trust.