POWER OF PLACE
Jackson Hole has unique power of place - the ability to bring people together across divides to solve challenges. In 1989, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met here, and the trust they built on its trails and rivers helped ease Cold War tensions at a pivotal moment.Â
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We build on that history and through "thinking locally and acting globally" we drive forward new ideas and action.
Track II Dialogues
JHI's Track 2 dialogues are unofficial, people-to-people conversations that build trust and practical cooperation outside official channels. Since 2021, our Coal Regions and Energy Transformation dialogues have connected community leaders, workers, and experts from Wyoming, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania with counterparts in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia. Together they have shared strategies for economic diversification, workforce opportunity, and keeping coal regions energy leaders, including at a 2025 convening in Bellagio, Italy.
Jackson Hole Summit Series
Energy, Economics, and Environment (2025)
Jackson Hole Summit · May 14–15, 2025
With a keynote by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond, leaders, investors and policymakers worked on meeting growing global energy demand in ways that grow local economies and protect the environment.
Climate Change and National Security (2021)
Jackson Hole Global Forum · June 24, 2021 · Online
Convened with the Center for Climate and Security and Prime Movers Lab, the forum brought Senator Tammy Duckworth together with military, security and investment leaders on the security risks of a changing climate.
Climate Solutions, Coal Communities, and Economic Diversification (2018)
Jackson Hole Global Forum · November 8–9, 2018Â
With Wyoming, the nation's largest coal producer, as its case study, leaders from the U.S., China, Norway, Germany and the UAE compared how coal regions could build new economies and climate solutions.
Founded in 2008 as the Global Business Roundtable, the Jackson Hole Roundtable (JHR) gives members off-the-record briefings on the global economy, politics, security and society.
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The JHR is more than a speaker series. It is a leading forum where Jackson Hole's leaders and residents incubate ideas, putting the valley's Power of Place to work so that new local thinking can translate into global action.
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Members help set the agenda. Each year, the JHI team, the JHR chair and members choose the themes. For 2027, they are:
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Energy and investing
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AI and communities
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Global affairs
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Managing local growth
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At year end, the dialogues produce "Think Locally, Act Globally" white papers that carry key ideas, takeaways, and recommendations beyond the valley.
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Laurent Roux, Founder and CEO of Gallatin Wealth Management, chairs the JHR.
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Global Change Series
Energy and Growth in the Age of Humans
With Rob Davies, Utah State University
On Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.: The Dynamics at Play and Pathways Forward
With Fiona Hill
Personal Crises, National Crises
With Jared Diamond