International Longevity Centre Global Alliance - Designing the Future of Ageing

27th January 2026

It is a profound honour to serve as Co-Presidents of the International Longevity Centre Global Alliance. Our partnership reflects the very spirit of the Alliance: global in reach, grounded in local realities, and united by a shared commitment to dignity, equity, and wellbeing across the life course.

At a time when population ageing is often framed as a burden or crisis, our vision is to firmly reposition longevity as one of humanity’s greatest collective achievements — and one of its most urgent responsibilities. Longer lives must be accompanied by better lives: lives marked by purpose, agency, care, inclusion, and intergenerational solidarity.

Together, we envision an Alliance that is not only a convenor of expertise but a catalyst for action. An Alliance that amplifies voices from the Global South and the Global North alike; that bridges research, policy, practice, and lived experience; and that challenges ageism in all its institutional, cultural, and structural forms.

Central to our co-leadership is a commitment to collaboration — between ILCs, across disciplines, and with governments, civil society, and communities themselves. We believe that sustainable longevity agendas are built through listening as much as leading, through relationships as much as results.

Our shared ambition is for the ILC Global Alliance to be a trusted moral and intellectual compass in a rapidly ageing world: bold in its advocacy, rigorous in its evidence, and humane in its vision of what it means to age — and live — well.

We want the ILC Global Alliance to:

• Influence more effectively, through this position, the various multilateral and international organisations that ILC Global Alliance has developed relationships and connections with, ensuring that the impact will be translated into concrete policies and actions that affect positively the lives and wellbeing of older people;
• Be more inclusive of all ILC GA members through adopting appropriate technology and tools and enhancing timely and relevant communications to strengthen our bond and bring us closer as a global organisation, recognised as a global leader on longevity;
• Establish new areas of policy relevant research that will take us forward to the next frontier of longevity and population ageing, finding intersectionality with other sectors and issues to expand our reach and produce more collaborations and partnerships or perhaps to challenge current ways of thinking that may not be working anymore.

In representing the voices of our members, we want to take the ILC Global Alliance to greater heights.

Susana Concordo Harding, ILC-Singapore
Rayne Stroebel, ILC-South Africa