In the humid heart of August, Hong Kong became a temporary home for more than 700 young minds from across the globe, gathered under the conviction that the economic challenges of tomorrow need not wait for tomorrow's adults to solve them. The World Youth Forum's Future Economics Leadership Summit brought students from over twenty countries into genuine collaboration — not to absorb knowledge passively, but to wrestle with real problems alongside peers they had never met and experts who had spent careers inside those very problems. It was, in its quiet way, a wager on the idea that the distance