CIPPEC, alongside CARI, will host two conferences to give continuity to the work of the T20, a group of think tanks from G20 countries, in view of Argentina’s upcoming presidency of the G20 forum in 2018. The list of attendees to the events includes international think tanks representatives and public officials from the G20 member countries and from other nations as well.
A conference called ‘Building a Policy Bridge from the German to the Argentine G20 Presidency´ will be held next Tuesday at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Washington. The speakers will be Julia Pomares, CIPPEC’s Executive Director; Pedro Villagra Delgado, Argentina’s G20 sherpa; Félix Peña, member of CARI’s Board of Directors; Peter Wolff, President of DIE’s World Economy and Development Financing Department; and Dennis Snower, President of IfW.
On the other hand, a second conference entitled ‘After the G20 Summit in Hamburg: Ways Forward to Revive International Cooperation’ will take place on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution. It will include a panel discussion called ‘Transitioning from the German to the Argentinian G20 Presidency’ which will be moderated by Dennis Snower, IfW’s President. The panelists will be 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. Later on, 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.
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. 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.
