As part of Italy’s 2021 presidency of the Group of Twenty, the Italy Think20 (T20) Secretariat is hosting a two-day virtual inception conference. The theme is “Rekindling Multilateralism in a Post-COVID World.”
According to the T20 Italy 2021 website: “High level personalities and top experts have already confirmed their participation, including: Paolo Gentiloni – European Commissioner for Economy; Alicia Bárcena – Executive Secretary CEPAL; Jeffrey Sachs – Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University; Emma Bonino – former European Commissioner and former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Tetsushi Sonobe – Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute; Virginia Gamba – Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict.”
CIGI’s Rohinton Medhora will co-chair the session on “Multilateralism and Governance” and Robert Fay will co-chair the session on “Digital Transformation.”
Policy briefs released in this year’s session with contributions from CIGI include: