The World Political Forum was initiated in 2003 by the Nobel Prize Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, with a specific mission: to foster contacts between politicians, scientists, high level personalities in the cultural and religious life of different continents, faiths, languages and cultures, in order to analyse the burning issues of Interdependent World, but above all to suggest solutions for the problems of the governance of globalisation and the crucial problems that affect humankind today. The WPF is not, however, just an annual meeting of eminent and authoritative personalities. Its founding members have proclaimed the intention to transform it into a fully-fledged international research centre based in the Bosco Marengo Complex, to deal with the themes of governance and globalisation.