Strategic challenges like accelerating climate change, energy transition, urbanization, adoption of artificial intelligence, and the need for global pandemic warning are all growing in urgency, in complexity, and in their need for clear and direct communication between researchers and decision-makers.

In a time of increasing skepticism on science and growing geopolitical turbulence, the historic Roosevelt House has organized a forum series to convene a multidisciplinary panel of experts to explore how science can better be com- municated and translated into sound policy.