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The G20 London Summit:
Growth, Stability, Jobs

Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2009

Our latest publication will be released on April 2, 2009, with contributions by the leaders of the G20 troika — Britain's Gordon Brown, Brazil's Lula da Silva and Korea's Lee Myung-bak — as well as South Africa's Trevor Manuel, France's Christine Lagarde, and many more.

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Contents

Forewords

• The 2009 G20 host's vision
  Gordon Brown, UK prime minister
  
• The G20 in the midst of crisis
  Lula Inácio da silva, president, Brazil
  
• From Washington to London
  Lee Myung-bak, president, Republic ofKorea
  
• France and the G20
  Christine Lagarde, minister of finance, France
  
• Africa's crisis
  Trevor Manuel, minister of finance, South Africa
• Key challenges
  The Right Honourable Paul Martin, former prime minister, Canada

Introduction

• London Summit: acting for change
  John Kirton, director, G20 Research Group
  
• Competing Gs?
  Andrew F. Cooper, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
  

Financial stability, regulation and supervision

• A continuing process
  Paolo Savona, professor emeritus, Unicredit Banca di Roma
  
• Competing approaches
  Natasha de Téran, Financial News
• Credit rating agencies: setting standards
  Deven Sharma, president, Standard & Poor's
• Deriving benefit
  Chiara Oldani, University of Viterbo 'La Tuscia'
• Hedging bets
  Chris Blackhurst, city editor, London Evening Standard
• Illicit finance
  Amandine Scherrer, associate researcher, Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology, University of Montreal
  

Global Economic Growth and Balance

• Is recovery on the horizon?
  Robert Fauver, former US under secretary of state for economic affairs and former G7 sherpa
• Stepping up to the plate
  David Hale, David Hale Global Economics
• Counting on China
  Linda Yueh, Oxford University
• Japan's role
  Naoki Tanaka, president, Centre for International Public Policy Studies
• Redressing the balance
  Paola Subacchi, research director, International Economics, Chatham House
• Smart sustainability
  Jean-Philippe Cotis, director, INSEE
• The climate-economy connection
  John Kirton, director, G20 Research Group
  

Trade, Investment and Infrastructure

• Keeping trade open
  Peter Mandelson, UK secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform
• Getting Doha done
  Peter D Sutherland, chair, BP plc, former director general, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization
• Trade rounds and global crisis
  Sylvia Ostry and Alan Alexandroff, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

Response and Reform

• Positive outcomes for emerging economies
  Ariel Buira, Mexican Council for International Affairs
• Finding stability
  Malcolm D Knight, former general manager, Bank for International Settlements
• IOSCO: co-ordinating the response
  Jane Diplock, chair, Executive Committee, IOSCO
• Called to account
  Sir David Tweedie, chair, International Accounting Standards Board
• Global problems, global solutions
  Robert Herz, Federal Accounting Standards Board of the United States
• Co-ordinating the response
  Erik Berglöf, chief economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• The African Development Bank: confronting crisis
  Donald Kaberuka, president, African Development Bank
• Asia’s challenge
  Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank
• Development out of crisis
  Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank
• Global reform, global action
  Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth secretary general
  
  

Appendix

• Profiles of participants

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