This special bookazine edition by Diplomatic Courier and Salzburg Global Seminar features essays by members of the Education Policymakers Network. The EPN connects policymakers from different countries to work, learn and innovate together. Launched in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the network helps support and sustain education system transformation around the need to develop a breadth of skills – cognitive, creative, physical, social, and emotional – in young and school-aged children.