Alongside their German partners DIE and IfW, the Argentinian think tanks that will co-chair the T20 in 2018 organized a conference at the Brookings Institution headquarters in Washington to discuss the results of the G20 Hamburg Summit and Argentina’s G20 presidency.
CIPPEC, CARI, the German Development Institute (DIE as per the acronym in German) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) are co-hosting this Wednesday a conference called ‘After the G20 Summit in Hamburg: Ways Forward to Revive International Cooperation’ at the headquarters of the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Among the attendees to the event are international think tanks representatives and public officials from the G20 member countries and from other nations, as well as other stakeholders.
It is the first time ever that Argentinian think tanks host an event at the renowned institution, which is considered a world reference in building bridges between social research and public administrations. The Brookings Institution tops the global think tanks ranking released annually by the University of Pennsylvania. The ranking is called ‘Global Go To Think Tank Index Report’ and it evaluates more than 6500 public policy institutions worldwide.
The conference focuses on the results of the G20 Hamburg Summit and on Argentina’s G20 presidency starting next December. The opening speeches are given by Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution; Peter Wolff, DIE’s President; and Julia Pomares, CIPPEC’s Executive Director.
Next, there is a panel discussion called ‘Transitioning from the German to the Argentinian G20 Presidency’ which is being moderated by Dennis Snower, IfW’s President. The panelists are Jörg Stephan, Deputy Director General for G20 Policy at the German Ministry of Finance, and Ariel Sigal, Chief of Cabinet and G20 Finance Deputy Director at the Argentinian Ministry of Treasury.
Finally, there will be an event on ‘Rethinking globalization and the new emerging order’, featuring speeches by Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution; Dennis Snower, President of Kiel; Félix Peña, member of CARI’s Board of Directors; and Wonhyuk Lim, Director of Global Economy Research at the Korean Development Institute. The event will be moderated by Mercedes Méndez Ribas, CIPPEC’s Institutional Development Director.