The New Dynamics of Summitry: Institutional Innovations for G-20 Summits

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 3:30 pm - 9:00 pm Thursday, April 22, 2010, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm

The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20036

Participant Biographies

Liaquat Ahamed Liaquat Ahamed has been Director of Aspen Insurance Holdings since October 31, 2007. Mr. Ahamed has a background in investment management with leadership roles that include heading the World Bank's investment division. From 2004, Mr. Ahamed has been an adviser to the Rock Creek Group, an investment firm based in Washington D.C. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Ahamed was the Chief Executive Officer of Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of BNP Paribas specializing in institutional single and multi-currency fixed income investment portfolios. He is also the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.

Mr. Ahamed is a Board member of the Rohatyn Group, and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Brookings Institution.

Martin Albrow Martin Albrow is senior visiting fellow at LSE Global Governance, a centre of the London School of Economics. Emeritus professor of the University of Wales he was formerly President of the British Sociological Association, Erich Voegelin visiting professor in the University of Munich and Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington, DC. An internationally recognized sociologist, he is author of The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity, Stanford University Press, 1997, Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, MacMillan, 1990, and Sociology: The Basics, Routledge, 1999, among other works.

Ernest Aryeetey Ernest Aryeetey is Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program of The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is also Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, Legon, where he has been on the research faculty since 1986. Aryeetey has also been Temporary Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1993); Visiting Professor at Yale University Department of Economics (1999); and the Cornell Visiting Professor, Department of Economics at Swarthmore College (2001-2002). He studied Economics at the University of Ghana and obtained a PhD at the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1985.

Ernest Aryeetey's research focuses on the economics of development with interest in institutions and their role in development, regional integration, economic reforms, financial systems in support of development and small enterprise development. He is well-known for his work on informal finance and microfinance in Africa. He has consulted for various international agencies on a number of development and political economy subjects.

Alan Beattie As World Trade Editor at The Financial Times, Alan Beattie leads the paper’s coverage of world trade policy and economic globalization. His expertise includes US and international economic issues, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Alan has made a life-long study of the reasons why some country and regional economies and societies succeed and others fail, and he has written a highly-regarded book with fascinating insights into the choices nations make and how those choices shape their economic future. He challenges accepted wisdom, exposing ideas such as the currently fashionable explanation that certain countries and regions are “destined” to be poor — or rich.

Influential forums at which he has appeared include: The World Bank (Washington, DC), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation – APEC – CEO Summit (Hanoi, Vietnam), Pacific Economic Co-operation Council (Sydney, Australia), Overseas Development Institute (London, UK). He has extensive television experience and has appeared on MSNBC, Bloomberg Television, and C-Span, among others.

Thomas A. Bernes Thomas Bernes is Vice President of Programs and Acting Executive Director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Prior to joining CIGI, Thomas A. Bernes was director of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office. Before that he was executive secretary of the joint IMF-World Bank Development Committee and deputy corporate secretary of the World Bank. From 1996 to September 2001, Mr. Bernes was the IMF executive director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean. He has been assistant deputy minister of finance and G7 finance deputy in Canada and served as the senior international economic official representing Canada at high-level meetings.

In addition to holding various senior finance, foreign affairs and trade policy positions within the Canadian government, Mr. Bernes served as head of the OECD’s General Trade Policy Division in the mid-1980s. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba.

Amar Bhattacharya Amar Bhattacharya (1952), an Indian national, is director for the G-24 since 2007. Before, he was senior advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank. In this capacity, he was responsible for coordinating the Bank’s work on international financial architecture.

Since joining the World Bank in 1979, he has had a long-standing involvement in East Asia, including as division chief for country operations in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific, and chief officer for creditworthiness. He was team leader of a special World Bank study that examined the policy implications of private capital flows and financial integration for developing countries, and was part of the Bank's senior team focusing on the East Asia crisis.

Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as an international economist with the First National Bank of Chicago.

Nancy Birdsall Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.

From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.

Paul Blustein Nonresident Journalist at the Brookings Institution, is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A former reporter with the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, he is the author of three books: The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (PublicAffairs, 2001); And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina (PublicAffairs, 2005); and Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations: Clashing Egos, Inflated Ambitions, and the Great Shambles of the World Trade System (PublicAffairs, 2009).

He received a B.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Merton College, Oxford.

Colin Bradford Colin Bradford is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington and of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada. He is director of the Brookings-CIGI global governance reform project in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. He and Johannes Linn have edited a Brookings Press 2007 book, Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate, based on a Brookings-CIGI seminar series and conference. As part of his work on governance reform, Dr. Bradford has written a recent paper on “World Energy Needs, Climate Change and Governance”.

From 1998 to 2004 he was Research Professor of Economics and International Relations and Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University. Between 1994 and 1998, Mr. Bradford was a presidential appointee in the Clinton administration serving as Chief Economist of the United States Agency for International Development.From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Bradford was Head of Research at the Development Centre of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Bradford received his B.A. degree in History from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Columbia University.

Ralph C. Bryant Ralph Bryant is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. His primary fields of expertise are international economics, monetary economics and macroeconomic policy. Prior to joining Brookings, Bryant was director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board and the international economist for the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee. He has frequently participated in advisory groups and served as consultant to organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, and the National Science Foundation. He has also served in teaching capacities, as a professor in International Finance at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and as a program director for the SEANZA Central Banking Course.

During 1995-97, Bryant served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Queen Elizabeth selected him as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1996. During 1996, he was the Professorial Fellow in Monetary Economics in New Zealand, based at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Victoria University of Wellington. In 1989 and 1990 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan. In 1983 he was the first recipient of the Distinguished Fellowship in International Banking and Finance at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. In 1969 he was awarded an International Affairs Fellowship to England by the Council on Foreign Relations. Bryant is the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar at Brookings. Bryant received his bachelor's degree in History, the Arts and Letters from Yale University in 1960. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.Phil degree in Economics from Oxford University in 1963. In 1966, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

William Burke-White William Burke-White joined the Foreign Policy Planning Staff in June 2009. His portfolio includes the Russian Federation and other issues at the Director’s discretion. Burke-White is on leave from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he teaches international law and human rights and writes on international law and international relations. Previously, Burke-White was Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany and Visiting Professor at MGIMO in Moscow, Russia and Mofid University in Iran, and Lecturer at Princeton University.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in international relations from Cambridge University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.

Mauricio Cárdenas Mauricio Cárdenas is Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings, Cárdenas served as Executive Director of Fedesarrollo, an independent policy-oriented research center in Bogotá, Colombia. He also served as Colombia’s Minister of Transportation (1998-1999), Director of National Planning (1999-2000), and Minister of Economic Development in 1994. In 1993, Cárdenas worked as the General Manager of the Empresa de Energía de Bogotá. Between 2001 and 2003, he was the first President of Titularizadora Colombiana, Latin America’s leading private firm specialized in mortgage securitization. Cárdenas was selected by CNN/Time Magazine as one of the “Leaders of the New Millennium” in 1999.

He has published several books and a large number of academic papers. Since 1992 he has taught in the Economics graduate program at Universidad de los Andes. In 2001 he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

Cárdenas holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). Cárdenas also serves on the Board of Directors of ECOPETROL, the principal petroleum company in Colombia.

Barry Carin Barry Carin is a Senior Fellow at CIGI, Associate Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and Adjunct Professor of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. From 2005-2009 he was editor of the journal Global Governance.

Prior to joining CIGI, Dr. Carin served as high commissioner of Canada to Singapore and as assistant deputy minister of Trade and Economic Policy in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He was foreign affairs Sous Sherpa for four G8 meetings. He has been Canadian representative on the Executive Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and assistant deputy minister for Strategic Policy and Planning in the Department of Employment and Immigration. He was also Director of Effectiveness Evaluation in the Treasury Board Secretariat.

Andrew F. Cooper Andrew F. Cooper is Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo where he teaches in the areas of international political economy, global governance and comparative politics. Previously, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of Southern California, Australian National University, Stellenbosch University and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

He has led training sessions on trade issues, governance and diplomacy in Canada, South Africa and at the World Trade Organization. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of both the GARNET Network of Excellence and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and has been a member of the Warwick Commission. Dr. Cooper's most recent publications focus on emerging powers, G8 reform, small states, Latin America, global health governance and the phenomenon of celebrity diplomacy.

Heidi Crebo-Rediker Heidi Crebo-Rediker is chief of International Finance and Economics in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She joined the Committee in early 2009 and specializes in international finance and economics, international financial institutions and trade & capital flows. Prior to this, Ms. Crebo-Rediker was the founding Co-Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.

In early 2007, Ms. Crebo-Rediker returned to the U.S. from Europe where she spent nearly two decades as a senior investment banker at several leading investment banks. Over her career, she managed businesses ranging from Sovereign, Supranational and Public Sector Banking, European Debt Capital Markets and Emerging Markets Debt Capital Markets. She advised and raised capital for governments, government agencies, financial institutions and companies and led many landmark transactions.

Ms. Crebo-Rediker was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Business" by The Wall Street Journal Europe and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.

Kemal Derviş Kemal Derviş is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development. Until February 2009, he was the Executive Head of the United Nations Development Programme and Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programs and departments working on development issues at the country level. In 2001-2002, as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Treasury of Turkey, Derviş was responsible for launching Turkey’s successful recovery from a devastating financial crisis. Derviş is also a Member of the Board of Overseers of Sabanci University in Istanbul and will contribute to the work of that university, particularly on European enlargement issues.

Prior to his tenure as Minister of Economic Affairs, Derviş had a 22-year career at the World Bank, where he became Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa in 1996 and Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management in 2000. At the World Bank he also managed work on the transition of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall, trade and financial sector policies in emerging markets and the reconstruction of Bosnia. From the end of 2002 to the summer of 2005, Derviş was a member of the Turkish Parliament representing his native city of Istanbul. During that period Derviş was one of the two Turkish representatives to the Convention of the Future of Europe. Since then he has participated in various international and European task forces and networks such as the Global Progressive Forum, the Progressive Governance Network, and the Commission on Growth and Development, sponsored by the World Bank. During the same period he was also active in EDAM, a Turkish think tank working on economic and foreign policy issues.

Derviş earned his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in economics from the London School of Economics, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He also taught economics at Princeton and the Middle East Technical Universities before joining the World Bank. He has published many articles in academic journals as well as current affairs publications. His most recent book, A Better Globalization, was published by Brookings Press for the Center for Global Development in 2005. Derviş is fluent in English, Turkish, French and German. Douglas J. Elliott Douglas Elliott, a fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution, is a member of the Initiative on Business and Public Policy. An investment banker for two decades, principally at J.P. Morgan, he was president and principal researcher for the Center On Federal Financial Institutions, a non-partisan think tank.

Douglas Elliott, who joined the Initiative at the beginning of 2009, will primarily focus on financial institutions, particularly the federal government’s role in dealing with the current financial market crises. In addition, he will contribute to the wider range of the Initiative’s activities.

The bulk of Mr. Elliott’s career since 1985 has been as a financial institutions investment banker, most recently as a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he worked for 14 years. However, a deep interest in public policy led him to found the Center On Federal Financial Institutions (COFFI) in 2003. COFFI focused on providing objective analyses of the federal government’s 100%-owned financial institutions. He has testified before both houses of Congress and participated in numerous policy forums as an expert in this area. The New York Times referred to his analyses as “refreshingly understandable” and “without a hint of dogma or advocacy”. His analyses were frequently quoted in major publications and he often participated as an expert on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer and other news shows. Mr. Elliott ceased active work at COFFI in 2006 to return to J.P. Morgan for a final 3 years.

Mr. Elliott’s work as a financial institutions investment banker over two decades has given him a wide-ranging and deep understanding of the industry. He has researched financial institutions or worked directly with them as clients in a range of capacities, including as: an equities analyst, a credit analyst, a mergers & acquisitions specialist, a relationship officer, and a specialist in securitizations. His work encompassed banks, insurers, funds management firms, and other financial institutions. In addition to J.P. Morgan, Mr. Elliott worked as an investment banker with Sanford Bernstein, Sandler O’Neill, and ABN AMRO.

Mr. Elliott graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Sociology in 1981. In 1984, he graduated from Duke University with an M.A. in Computer Science.

Michael Froman Michael Froman is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, a position to be held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. His responsibilities include serving as the White House liaison to the G7, G8 and G20 summits of economic powers.

A former chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin during the Clinton administration, Froman also served in the Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for Eurasia and the Middle East. He was also director for international economic affairs on the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Prior to working in the U.S. Government, he was a director of the American Bar Association's legal assistance program in Albania and a member of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission in Brussels.

Most recently, Froman was a managing director of Citigroup’s Citi Alternative Investments Institutional Clients Group, where he was head of infrastructure and sustainable development. He also served on 12-member advisory board of the Obama campaign’s transition team.

In addition to his J.D. from Harvard, he received a bachelor's degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.

David Gartner David Gartner is David Gartner is a fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education. His research focuses on global education and the role of international institutions and foreign assistance in global development.

Mr. Gartner has a Ph.D., from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a JD Yale Law School. He received a BA Brown University

Jo Marie Griesgraber Jo Marie Griesgraber is Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, Economic Policy Institute. Previously, she served as the Policy Director at Oxfam America. Prior to that, Dr. Griesgraber directed the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project at the Center of Concern, a Jesuit-related social justice research center. There she worked on reform of the World Bank, regional development banks, and the IMF in part by disseminating information to Lead Regional Partners (LRP) in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.

She also chaired Jubilee 2000/USA's Executive Committee. Dr. Griesgraber received her PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University.

Toni Harmer Toni Harmer is the Assistant Director of the Managing Global Insecurity project at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings Ms. Harmer was Director of the International Financial Crisis/G20 Taskforce for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia). Ms Harmer served as a Counselor at the at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC from 2004-2007 where she was responsible for international trade and climate change and was a lead negotiator for the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (2002-2004).

Ms. Harmer holds Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Adelaide in Australia and a Master of Laws degree from the Institute for Comparative Law, Philipps University Marburg, Germany. Ms Harmer is member of the New York and South Australian bars.

Paul Heinbecker Paul Heinbecker is the inaugural Director of the Laurier University Centre for Global Relations and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), both in Waterloo, Ontario. He writes extensively for the print media in Canada and abroad and comments frequently in the electronic media on international relations, especially as regards Canadian foreign policy and diplomacy, US foreign policy, the Middle East, Afghanistan, arms control and disarmament and United Nations reform, on which he has edited a book, "Irrelevant or Indispensable?" He teaches a course on Canadian foreign policy at Laurier and lectures at universities and other institutions in Canada and abroad.

Mr. Heinbecker served abroad initially at the Canadian Embassies in Ankara, Turkey and Stockholm, Sweden, and on the Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and in Paris, France. In Ottawa, he served, inter alia, as Director of the United States General Relations Division and as Chairman of the Policy Development Secretariat in External Affairs, where he wrote a number of speeches for then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Secretary of State Mark MacGuigan. In 1984, he led the production of the foreign policy review "Competitiveness and Security" of the then Progressive Conservative government.

In 1989 he served as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Chief Foreign Policy Advisor and speech writer and in 1991 as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy. In 1996, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister for Global and Security Policy. He advised Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy on Canada's human security agenda, including the ban on landmines, led the departmental task force on the 1996 humanitarian refugee crisis in Eastern Zaire and headed the interdepartmental task force on Canadian participation in the 1999 Kosovo conflict. As Canada's G-8 Political Director, he helped to negotiate the end of that conflict. He, also, led the Canadian delegation to Kyoto for the Climate Change negotiations. In the summer of 2000, Mr. Heinbecker was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. Mr. Heinbecker was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Honours) by Waterloo Lutheran University in 1965 and Honorary Doctorates by Wilfrid Laurier University in 1993 and St. Thomas University in 2007.

Oh-Seok Hyun Oh-Seok Hyun, a Korean national, is currently President of the Korea Development Institute (KDI), a leading think tank of Korea. He is a member of the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Presidential Committee on Regional Development, Advisory Council on Presidential Committee for G-20 Summit and Prime Minister's International Development Cooperation Committee.

Dr. Hyun also served as Chairman of NPSO (the Non-governmental Public Serving Organization) Evaluation Board for the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has been President of the Institute for International Trade of the Korea International Trade Association. Dr. Hyun has extensive experience in policy making and research in the public sector, a unique career path for a government official in Korea. He formerly served as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance and Economy and Special Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy. He contributed in formulating and coordinating the national agenda, working as Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Office of the President and Director-General of the National Economic Advisory Council. He also served as Director-General of Bureau of Economic Policy and Bureau of Treasury of the Ministry of Finance and Economy.

Dr. Hyun successfully managed the administration of the ASEM III (Third Asia Europe Meeting) in Seoul as Executive Director. He also worked as an economist at the World Bank and served as Dean of the National Tax College. He also served as a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Seonjou Kang Seonjou Kang is an associate professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) of Korea. She also served the IFANS as Director-General for Trade and International Economy from 2007 through 2008. Prior to joining the IFANS, she taught political science at the University of North Texas.

Most of her research centers around international finance/monetary issues, international development cooperation (official development Assistance), and international trade. She published in the leading political science journals such as Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, and European Journal of Political Research.

She received her Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University in 2000. Her other degrees are B.A. in international relations and M.A. in political science from Seoul National University in Korea.

Daniel Kaufmann Daniel Kaufmann is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Most recently, he served as Director in the World Bank Institute, where he pioneered new approaches to measure and analyze governance and corruption, helping countries formulate action programs.

Kaufmann is a world renowned writer on governance, corruption, and development, who, with colleagues, has pioneered new approaches to diagnose and analyze country governance. At the World Bank, Kaufmann also held senior positions focused on finance, regulation and anti-corruption, as well as on capacity building for Latin America. He also served as lead economist both in economies in transition as well as in the World Bank's research department, and earlier in his career was a senior economist in Africa. In the early nineties, Kaufmann was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he held a visiting position at Harvard University, prior to resuming his career at the World Bank. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos) Faculty. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. Kaufmann is a Chilean national who received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Homi Kharas Homi Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Kharas is also a member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Michael Spence. His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian growth and development, and international aid for the poorest countries.

Previously, Kharas served as Chief Economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific region where he was engaged in policy dialogue with government officials, policymakers, academics, NGOs and business and finance communities in developing countries. He covered a diverse range of economies, including China, Korea, ASEAN and the small islands of the Pacific. He has also worked on Latin America and East/Central Europe. As Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, Kharas was responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91, he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.

Kharas holds a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from King’s College at Cambridge University. Kharas is co-author of An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth (2007); co-editor of East Asian Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development (2007); and co-editor of East Asia Integrates: A Trade Policy Agenda for Shared Growth (2004).

Rajiv Kumar Rajiv Kumar is currently the Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He is also on the board of several important government organisations including the National Security Advisory Board and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Fellow at ICRIER. Dr. Kumar has completed his D.Phil. in Economics in 1982 from Oxford University.

In a distinguished career spanning over 25 years, Dr. Kumar has held several key positions in a wide range of institutions. He served as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He has also worked as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and in the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Projects, Ministry of Industry. From 2004 to January 2006, he was Chief Economist with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Prior to joining the CII, he had worked at the Asian Development Bank for nearly 10 years as a Principal Economist. He has several books and publications to his credit and contributes regularly to newspapers and journals.

Dong Hwi Lee Dr. Dong Hwi Lee is currently a professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security(IFANS), a branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade , the Republic of Korea and a senior associate to the Korea Chair at the CSIS in Washington, D.C.,USA. He was a Dean of Research at the IFANS with a deputy ministerial rank for the years 2000-2004. Also, he was a senior visiting scholar in 2009 at the G8/G20 Research Group of the Munk Center, University of Toronto, Canada.

His research interests include the political economy of East Asia, multilateral and regional institutions, and analysis of international negotiations. He has written numerous articles on G20 related topics such as “The G20 London Summit: Assessment and Prospect,” Korea Focus(May 2009), and “Evolutuon of the G8 Summit: On Discussion of Membership Expansion,” IFANS Policy Brief(August 2008).

He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in Evanston and a B.A. in economics from Seoul National University.

Kye Woo Lee Kye Woo Lee is visiting professor of economics at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Seoul, Korea. Before, he taught also at the Graduate Schools of International Studies, Seoul National University and Ewha University in Seoul. He was a member of Prime Minister’s Committee on International Development Assistance and served as an advisor to the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Korea Export and Import Bank, which offers official development assistance for developing countries.

Prior to his repatriation to Korea in 1998, he served with the World Bank in Washington, DC in various capacities including an executive and a senior economist. He was also President of the Korea Economic Society in the U.S. Before joining the World Bank in 1972, he was a middle-level manager with the government of Korea.

Prof. Lee was educated at the Seoul National University (LL.B. and MPA) and Michigan State University (Ph.D. in Economics), and was a visiting scholar with the Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.

He has written several books and numerous professional and academic articles in domestic and international journals on international trade and finance, economic development, human development, poverty and income distribution, social safety nets, international organizations, and Latin American economy. His most recent publications include: An Assessment of Executive Abilities of Korea as an Aid Donor, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Seoul (2009), Development Cooperation for Social Safety Nets in East and Southeast Asia, KNAEC Research Series 09-01, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Seoul (2009), Development Cooperation for Economic Integration in East and Southeast Asia, KNAEC Research Series 08-01, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Seoul (2008), “An Evaluation of Korea’s 20-Year ODA,” Korea Development Review 29 (2): 42-74, Seoul, (2007).

Wonhyuk Lim Wonhyuk Lim is Director of Policy Research at the Center for International Develoipment, Korea Development Institute (KDI). He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in Washington, DC. Previously, Dr. Lim taught at the Korea Military Academy and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

He also served as an advisor for the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asia and for the First Economic Subcommittee of the Presidential Transition Committee after the 2002 Election in Korea. Most recently, he was at Brookings as a CNAPS Fellow for 2005-6. He received a B.A.S. in Physics and History and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

David Lipton David Lipton is Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, National Economic Council/National Security Council.

Mr. Lipton was the former Managing Director, Head of Global Country Risk Management at Citigroup. He joined Citigroup following five years at Moore Capital Management. He served in the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1998 as Undersecretary for International Affairs, and before that as Assistant Secretary, where he designed and implemented U.S. policy to assist Eastern European countries in their transition to market economies. Domenico Lombardi Domenico Lombardi is president of The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (OXONIA) and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Lombardi serves as a Managing Editor of World Economics and sits on the advisory boards of the Bretton Woods Committee, the G20 Research Group, the G8 Research Group, and the Institute for International Affairs. He has previously been a member of the Executive Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Dr. Lombardi's academic interests focus on global governance, the G20, the G8, the reform of the international financial and monetary system, and the creation of a new aid architecture. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and has been referred to in Congressional hearings and government reports. His volume Finance, Development, and the IMF, with James Boughton, has recently been released from Oxford University Press. The book Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy, with Kemal Dervis and Masahiro Kawai, is forthcoming from the Brookings Institution Press.

Dr. Lombardi has recently authored a Report to the IMF Managing Director on IMF reform based on the global consultations that the Fund has undertaken with academia, think-tanks and civil society organizations from all over the world. Dr. Lombardi has an undergraduate degree in Financial Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, and he did his postgraduate studies at Harvard University, The London School of Economics and Oxford University (Nuffield College), from which he holds a Ph.D. in Economics.

Thomas E. Mann Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governmental Studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was executive director of the American Political Science Association. He earned his B.A. in political science at the University of Florida and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on American politics and public policy and is also a regular contributor to newspaper stories and television and radio programs on politics and governance. He is currently working on projects dealing with redistricting, election reform, campaign finance, and congressional reform. He is co-author with Norman Ornstein of The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing American and How To Get It Back on Track.

Jacques Mistral Jacques Mistral is Head of Economic Studies at IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) since september 2007 and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Prime Minister’s office) in Paris. He previously served as the Minister - Financial Counselor to the Embassy of France in the United States of America (2001 to 2006). While in this position, he has been invited as a senior fellow by the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, for the academic year 2005-06.

Dr. Mistral was born on September 22, 1947, in the city of Toulouse, in south-western France. He received his education at France’s Ecole Polytechnique, and he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris I (1977).

Prior to his Washington assignment, he was Special Adviser to then Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Laurent Fabius. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Mistral held various executive positions in the AXA Group, successively: CEO Axa Marine and Aviation; EVP Asian Operations; EVP Human Resources (France); EVP Finance (France). From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Mistral served as Economic Adviser to then-Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Dr. Mistral has had a long teaching career, as a Professor of Economics at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) from 1974 to 1992, at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1982-1996) and at the Ecole Polytechnique (1984-1994). He is the author of many articles in the fields of macroeconomics, economic policies, and international economics. His latest book, "La troisième révolution américaine" (Perrin, 2008), was awarded the "Best economic book" prize in december 2008 and the Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in november 2009.

Jongryn Mo Jongryn Mo is a professor of international political economy at Graduate School of International Studies. He served as the first dean of Underwood International College in 2004-2008 at Yonsei University. He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Prior to joining Yonsei in 1996, he had been an assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of specialization are international political economy, East Asian development, and political economics. Professor Mo currently serves as a member of the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness and advisor to Ministry of Knowledge and Economy, Ministry of Unification, and Ministry of Education. Professor Mo has a PhD in political economics from the Stanford Business School.

Kang-ho Park A former Director-General for Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, Kangho Park is a visiting fellow in the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution. He focuses on emerging donors and global development partnership issues.

Stewart Patrick Dr. Stewart Patrick is senior fellow and director of the program on international institutions and global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of expertise include multilateral cooperation in the management of global issues; U.S. policy toward international institutions, including the United Nations; and the challenges posed by fragile, failing, and post-conflict states. He joined the Council from the Center for Global Development, where for three years he directed CGD's work on weak states and U.S. national security. From September 2002 to January 2005, Dr. Patrick served on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff, with lead staff responsibility for U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and a range of global and transnational issues. Prior to government service, Dr. Patrick was an associate at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

He is the author, co-author or editor of four books, including The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (2009) and of Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (2002), as well as numerous articles and chapters on the subjects of multilateral cooperation, state-building, and U.S. foreign policy. In addition, he is the co-cauthor of the Index of State Weakness in the Developing World. Dr. Patrick graduated from Stanford University and received his doctorate in international relations, as well as two masters’ degrees, from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife and three children.

Samantha Power Samantha Power is Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council. An expert on human rights and foreign policy, her writings include the 2008 book “Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World,” about the slain U.N. diplomat; and “’A Problem from Hell’": America and the Age of Genocide, which received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Council on Foreign Relations prize. A journalist before law school, Power covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia. After becoming a professor at the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Power continued to report from such places as Burundi, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. Power was a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, and after the election she was a member of the team looking at how the new administration should approach national security, defense and state department issues.

Douglas A. Rediker Doug Rediker is the United States Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. He is the former Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation.

In 2007, he returned to the U.S. after over 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for (what were at the time) some of the world's leading financial institutions, including Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers. As Head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Investment Banking through much of the 1990’s, Doug was responsible for establishing operations in several countries and for originating and executing major transactions in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey and Central Asia, including many landmark privatizations.

He was named an "Emerging Markets Superstar" by Global Finance Magazine and has received both the "EEMEA Equity" and "M&A Deals of the Year" by The International Financing Review. Mr. Rediker has appeared often in both television and print media, including the BBC, CNN, CNBC, The Financial News, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Congressional Quarterly, the National Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Euromoney and The International Herald Tribune.

He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Clinton Global Initiative Task Force on Political Risk Insurance for the Middle East/Emerging Markets, is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published opinion pieces in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, European Affairs and The Globalist.

Changyong Rhee Dr. Changyong Rhee is Secretary General of the Presidential Committee for the G-20 Summit Committee and the new Korean Sherpa from November 2009. Prior to joining the Committee, he served as Vice-chairman of the Korean Financial Services Commission. Before that he was a professor of Economics at Seoul National University in Korea and the University of Rochester in the United States.

In addition to his extensive work in academia, Dr. Rhee has been an active policy advisor to the Korean government. Former positions Dr. Rhee has held include Director of the Global Financial Research Institute & Korea Fixed Income Research Institute, non-executive director of the Korea Development Bank, advisor to the Bank of Korea and advisor to the Korea Securities Depository. He was also a fund manager of the endowment fund of Seoul National University.

Dr. Rhee received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1989.

Ambassador Andrés Rozental Andrés Rozental was Mexico’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. He was a career diplomat for more than 35 years, having served his country as Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden (1983-88), Permanent Representative of México to the United Nations in Geneva (1982-83), as well as in various responsabilities within the Mexican Foreign Ministry and abroad. Since 1994, he holds the lifetime rank of Eminent Ambassador of México.

Currently, Ambassador Rozental holds non-executive Board positions in several important multinational corporations in Brazil, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and México. He chairs the Board of ArcelorMittal Mexico and is an independent Board member of ArcelorMittal Brazil, Ocean Wilson Holdings and the New India Investment Trust. He holds advisory positions with EADS Mexico, Toyota and Kansas City Southern de México. He is President of his own consulting firm, Rozental & Asociados, which specializes in advising multinational companies on their corporate strategies in Latin America. He is also active in a number of non-governmental organizations and projects relating to global governance, migration policy, climate change, Latin American politics and the promotion of democracy.

Ambassador Rozental obtained his profesional degree in international relations from the Universidad de las Américas in México, and his Master’s in International Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of four books on Mexican foreign policy and of numerous articles on international affairs. He has been a foreign policy advisor to Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.

Andrew Schrumm Andrew Schrumm is a research officer at CIGI, active in the Shifting Global Order, International Economic Governance and Environment and Resource research programs. Working directly with Associate Director Andrew F.Cooper, his research activities focus on the rise of BRICSAM nations, the G8 and G20 summits, and international energy relations. He studied political economy at Queen's University and diplomacy studies at DiploFoundation.

Previously, Andrew served as president of the Queen's International Affairs Association and as editor of the Queen's International Observer. Prior to joining CIGI, he worked as a legal researcher and assistant to a Member of Parliament.

Gordon Smith Gordon Smith is the Executive Director of the Centre for Global Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Dr. Smith arrived at the University of Victoria in 1997 following a distinguished career with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, which included posts as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994-1997, Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1991-1994, and Ambassador to the Canadian Delegation to NATO from 1985-1990. He is the author (with Moisés Naím) of Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance (Ottawa: IDRC, 2000), co-editor (with Daniel Wolfish) of Who is Afraid of the State? Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), co-editor (with Harold Coward) of Religion and Peacebuilding, as well as numerous book chapters and articles.

Since 1997, Dr. Smith is Chairman of Canada’s International Development Research Centre and Co-Chair of the Canada Corps. He currently holds positions as Chair of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, Visiting Professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the University of Westminster (London and Paris), Member of the Advisory Committee for the Conflict Analysis and Management Program at Royal Roads University and Associate Faculty, Member of the Canadian Group of the Trilateral Commission, and Co-Chair, Advisory Board, Consortium for Economic Policy and Research in Russia. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.

Jie-ae Sohn Jie-ae Sohn is spokesperson for South Korea’s G20 Summit. She is the former Seoul correspondent and bureau chief for CNN, a position she held since 1995. Sohn has been on the media scene since 1985. During her stint at CNN, she covered major news stories, including summits between South and North Korea, the nuclear weapons standoff between North Korea and the United States, and the booming internet industry.

She also served as president of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club in 2004 and 2005. The Seoul resident was the correspondent for the New York Times from 1992 to 1995. She started her career in 1985 as a journalist at “Business Korea,” a monthly magazine covering economic and business issues.

Her awards include “The Pride of Korean Journalist Grand Prix” from the Journalist Federation of Korea in 2009, and the “Ewha Journalist Award of the Year” from Ewha Womans University in 2004.

Arvind Subramanian Arvind Subramanian, an Indian national, is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development and senior research professor at the Johns Hopkins University. He was assistant director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. During his career at the Fund, he worked on trade, development, Africa, India, and the Middle East. He served at the GATT (1988–92) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (1999–2000).

He has written on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, the WTO, and intellectual property. He has published widely in academic and other journals, including the American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, Foreign Affairs, World Economy, and Economic and Political Weekly.

His book, India's Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation, was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. He is coeditor of Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium with Roger Porter and Pierre Sauvé (Brookings/Harvard University Press, 2002).

He obtained his undergraduate degree from St. Stephens College, Delhi; his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India; and his M.Phil and DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK.

Soogil Young Dr. Soogil Young has been President of the National Strategy Institute (NSI), an independent think tank on economic reform and national governance, in Seoul, since March 2006. Concurrently, he is a member of the Presidential Commission on Green Growth, Chairman of the Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC), and Vice-Chair of the Seoul Financial Forum. During 1978~1998, Dr. Young served as a senior economist at four governmental economic think tanks, including as a senior fellow for the Korea Development Institute (KDI), and as President for the Korea Transport Institute and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP).

Since the early 1980s, he has been active on many blue-ribbon commissions for the government on economic policy issues, including three Presidential Commissions. He was the leading architect of the country’s trade policy reform in the 1980s. He was awarded the National Decoration of the Tongbaik Order for the coordinating role he played in preparing the epochal ‘Presidential Emergency Decree on Real Name Financial Transactions’ of August 1993. Dr. Young served as Korea’s Ambassador to the OECD in Paris, concurrently serving as Chairman of the Advisory Board on the OECD Development Centre. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in U.S.

Yanbing Zhang Dr. Zhang Yanbing is an assisstant professor at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is also the executive director of the Master’s in International Development (MID) program, which is one of the Global Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) Programs launched in recent years. Dr. Zhang finished his BA degree from Beijing University and his Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Sheffield, the UK. Currently, His mainly research field is Global Governance and International Development. He is also interested in political philosophy, political economy and international political economy. He believes, in the age of globalization, scholars have to take a comprehensive approach to view the world.