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As the world’s leading platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and society, the St. Gallen Symposium provides an opportunity for open and constructive discussions on the fundamental challenges faced by businesses and societies across the world. The event brings together an international group of participants: 600 prominent decision-makers in business, academia, politics and society, 200 outstanding students, specially selected to participate in the St. Gallen Symposium out of well over 1,000 applicants for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, and leading representatives of the world media. The first St. Gallen Symposium, then called International Management Symposium, takes place in May 1970, with 100 representatives from the world of business, politics as well as research and an equal number of students joining the dialogue. The participants’ interest and their positive response prompt the founders to decide to organise an annual Symposium held in May. His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, honours the University of St. Gallen with a visit on November 18, 2006, in order to receive the Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation. In so doing, he has paid tribute to the traditional role of the University of St. Gallen as a meeting place between the decision-makers and the academic youth. The International Students’ Committee (ISC) is responsible for organising the visit.