The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency of finding common and shared solutions to many overlapping global challenges: from the health emergency to skyrocketing debt, from climate change to barriers to international trade, from digital transition to heightened poverty and inequality. The Italian Presidency of the G20 effectively summarizes these priorities for the multilateral framework in 2021 in “People, Planet, Prosperity” and these are the topics at the core of the T20 Inception Conference on February 8 and 9.
Amongst many others, participants include: Paolo Gentiloni – European Commissioner for Economy; Alicia Bárcena – Executive Secretary ECLAC; 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.
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Virginia Gamba is the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. She was appointed 12 April 2017 by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Early in her career, Gamba served as Director the Centre for Military Transformation of the Argentine Republic (1984–1986) as well as lecturer at the University of Maryland (1986) and King’s College London (1987–1990). From 2001 to 2007, Gamba was Director of South-South Interactions at Safer Africa. From 2007 to 2009, Gamba worked with the European Union as an Expert Consultant and helped develop the African Common Approach to Combat Illicit Small Arms Trafficking. From 2009 to 2012, she served as Deputy Director of Safety and Security at the Institute for Public Safety in Argentina’s Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. From 2012 to 2015, Gamba held the position of Director and Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs in the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). She holds a master’s degree in Strategic Studies and a bachelor’s in Spanish and American studies.
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James G. McGann is a Senior Lecturer of International Studies at the Lauder Institute, Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program and a Senior Fellow at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to assuming his current post, Dr. McGann was Assistant Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also worked as a consultant and advisor for many organisations such as the World Bank; the United Nations; the Asian Development Bank and several others. Dr. McGann earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a National Fellow at Stanford University while writing his doctoral thesis, which examined the nature and evolution of public policy research organizations in the United States such as Brookings Institution, Heritage Foundation, RAND, Urban Institute amongst others.
Professor Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). Prior to joining UNU, Prof. Allotey served as Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of School (Research and Development) at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University (Malaysia). She also was head of the Global Public Health unit and founding Associate Director of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO, Malaysia). Her previous experience includes Professor of Race, Diversity and Professional Practice, Brunel University (UK); Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Women’s Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Women’s Health, University of Melbourne; and Lecturer in the Tropical Health Program, Australian Centre for International and Tropic Disease and Nutrition, University of Queensland. She is also a technical advisor on several WHO committees in Geneva, including serving as co-Chair of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel; a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Universal Health Coverage for the WHO Western Pacific Region office in Manila.
Prof. Sachs served as the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. During that time, he led a university-wide organization of more than 850 research scientists and policy experts in support of sustainable development, championed the Masters of Development Practice (MDP) program. He was appointed University Professor at Columbia University in 2016 and also serves as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised both Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Prior to his arrival at Columbia University in July 2002, Professor Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he served as the Director of the Center for International Development and the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade.
Alicia Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2008. She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. Alicia Bárcena was the Founding Director of the Earth Council in Costa Rica, a non-governmental organization in charge of follow-up to the agreements reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Alicia Bárcena holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and holds a Master degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She has completed the courses for a degree of Master in Ecology, and has initiated studies for a PhD degree in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has published numerous articles on sustainable development, public policy, environmental issues, and public participation.
Dr Fatih Birol has served as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency since September 2015. He was re-elected in January 2018 for a second four-year term, which began in September 2019. Under his leadership, the IEA has undertaken its first comprehensive modernisation programme since its creation in 1974. This effort focuses on three pillars: opening the doors of the IEA to include major emerging countries, such as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa who have joined the IEA Family, thus increasing its share of global energy demand from 38% to almost 75%; broadening the IEA’s security mandate to natural gas and electricity as well as oil; and making the IEA the global hub for clean energy technologies and energy efficiency.
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Fahad Alturki is Vice President of Research at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). In this role he oversees KAPSARC’s research programs and priorities, ensuring that these are strategically focused on impacts within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, both regionally and globally. Externally, Dr. Fahad is an independent board member of the General Authority of Statistics Board of Directors and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD). Prior to joining KAPSARC, Dr. Fahad was the chief economist and head of research at Jadwa Investment Company in Riyadh, where he managed the economic research department and published regular reports on issues related to the Saudi and global economies and the world oil market. He was also the chairperson of the Public Funds Board, a board member of the Jadwa REIT Al Haramain Fund and Jadwa REIT Saudi Fund, and a member of Jadwa’s executive management committee.
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz was named co-chair and chief executive officer by the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) in March 2017. He began serving in June 2017. Ernest J. Moniz served as the thirteenth United States Secretary of Energy from 2013 to January 2017. As Secretary, he advanced energy technology innovation, nuclear security and strategic stability, cutting-edge capabilities for the American scientific research community, and environmental stewardship. He strengthened the Department of Energy (DOE) strategic partnership with its seventeen national laboratories and with the Department of Defense and the broader national security establishment. Prior to these charges, Dr. Moniz was also Head of the MIT Department of Physics during 1991-1995 and 1997 and Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 1983-1991. Dr. Moniz served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1973 until becoming Secretary of Energy in 2013 and is now the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus and Special Advisor to the MIT President. He is the inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the Emerson Collective and CEO of the non-profit Energy Futures Initiative.
Paolo Gentiloni is an Italian politician serving as European Commissioner for the Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 2019, following his time as the 57th Prime Minister of Italy from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2016, and as Minister of Communication from 2006 to 2008, and as the spokesperson for the Mayor and Commissioner in the City of Rome between 1993 and 2000. Gentiloni is also a former professional journalist, as well as a founding member of the Democratic Party, of which he became President in March 2019. He graduated in Political Sciences from the Sapienza University of Rome.
As of 2014, Emma Marcegaglia was was appointed by the Renzi government as Eni’s President.
Dennis J. Snower is President of the Global Solutions Initiative, which provides policy advice to the G20. He is Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow of the Blavatnik School of Governance, Oxford University. Furthermore, he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (London), at IZA (Institute for the Future of Work, Bonn), and CESifo (Munich). In 2017, he was Co-Chairman of the officially mandated Think20, advising the German G20 presidency. He is an expert on labor economics, public policy and inflation-unemployment tradeoffs. He has made seminal contributions to the design of employment subsidies and welfare accounts. He has published extensively on employment policy, the design of welfare systems, and monetary and fiscal policy. He earned a BA and MA from New College, Oxford University, and an MA and a PhD at Princeton University. He served most recently as President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, where he is now a president emeritus.
Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen. She is Special Advisor to EU High Representative and Vice President of the Commission Josep Borrell. As Special Advisor to HRVP Federica Mogherini she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She has been a member of Eni’s Board of Directors since May 2020. Previously she held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Her major publications include: Framing the EU’s Global Strategy, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (author); The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (co-editor); and Multilateralism in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2013 amongst others. Nathalie is the 2008 winner of the Anna Lindh award for the study of European Foreign Policy.
Professor Alexander Stubb is the Director of the School of Transnational Governance as of 1 May 2020. He has served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was the Chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020. Stubb worked as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi’s team at the European Commission (1995-2004). He was involved in the negotiation of the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon. Stubb’s background is in academia, civil service and politics. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics, a Master’s degree in EU administration from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a B.A. in political science from Furman University in South Carolina.
Gelsomina Vigliotti is the Director General for International Financial Relations at the Department of the Treasury of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. She is in charge of the analysis of the international economic, monetary and financial system, and of the preparation of the Ministerial meetings of the G7, G20 and IMFC. She is responsible for the relations with international financial institutions – including the IMF, multilateral development banks, the EIB and the OECD . She serves as G7 and G20 Deputy Deputy and is Member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank and member of the Administrative Council of the European Development Bank. She is Alternate Governor for Italy of the major multilateral development banks. Ms. Vigliotti holds a degree in Political Sciences from the LUISS University in Rome and a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of York. She carried out postgraduate studies at the University La Sapienza in Rome and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Fahad Abdullah Almubarak is the Chairman and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia. He has worked in executive management positions providing investment management and corporate finance advisory services during most of his career. He played a leading role in the privatization of Saudi Telecom. He was a member of the Negotiating Team with the international oil companies towards the partial privatization of the National Gas Industry in Saudi Arabia. Recently, Dr Almubarak was elected to the Chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). Dr. Almubarak is a member of the Board of Directors of Mobily – the 2nd mobile telephone licensee in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Hollandi Bank, and Amwal AlKhaleej (a private investment company), among others. Dr. Almubarak holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and masteral degrees in Business Administration, Engineering Management, and Accountancy and Taxation. He also holds a Doctorate in Philosophy Degree in Business Administration from the University of Houston, Texas.
Ferdinando Nelli Feroci is president of the IAI. A diplomat from 1972 to 2013, he was Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union in Brussels (2008-13), Chief of Staff (2006-08) and Director General for European Integration (2004-06) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, he served in New York at the United Nations, in Algiers, Paris and Beijing. He also served as Diplomatic Counsellor of the Vice President of the Italian Council of Ministers (1998). In June 2014 he was appointed to the post of European Commissioner in the Commission chaired by Manuel Barroso to replace Antonio Tajani, a position he held until the end of the mandate of the Commission on 1 November 2014. Formerly a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1985-86), and Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples (1989), he is currently a professor at the School of Government of LUISS, Rome. He is the author of many articles and essays on international relations, European affairs and political affairs.
Rizal Affandi Lukman is Deputy Coordinating Minister for International Economic and Financial Cooperation of the Republic of Indonesia. Previously, he was Director for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Director for Bilateral Economic Cooperation and Director for Asia Economic and Financial Cooperation. He was also Assistant to President SBY’s Private Secretary. Rizal Affandi Lukman received in Japan his PhD in International Development from Nagoya University, and his Master in International Relations from the Niigata International University.
Prior to taking up the role of OECD Sherpa, Mr Pinaud served as Head (2018) and Deputy Head (2015) of the Sherpa Office and Global Governance Unit providing strategic leadership and political insight with regard to the OECD contributions to the G20. Mr Pinaud started his career as a country-risk analyst at Société Générale Group before joining the OECD in 2002. From 2002 to 2007, he worked in the Development Centre on Issues of North–South and South-South macroeconomic interdependence; on the development of financial markets in emerging market economies; and was part of the team responsible for the yearly African Economic Outlook report. He was also instrumental in developing the OECD-sponsored Emerging Markets Network. Between 2007 and 2010, Mr Pinaud was seconded to the private office of the French Minister for Employment before joining the Office of the Secretary-General in 2010. He holds a Masters’ degree in Development Economics, a Masters’ degree in Political Science and a Masters’ degree in History from the University of Sorbonne.
After graduating in Political Science at the University of Padua in 1980, Pietro Benassi embarked on a diplomatic career, serving in the Directorate General for Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1986 he received his first assignment abroad, being assigned to Havana as Second Commercial Secretary. He then worked, from 1990 to 1994, as First Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw.
Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program in April 2009 and the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues. She was the first woman to assume these positions, which she held for a full two terms and eight years before standing down in April 2017.
Varetto started her professional career in 1992 as editor and host at the local TV channel GRP (Giornale Radiotelevisivo Piemonte) and started serving also as executive in 2001. She has won many awards including the Premio Casalegno giovani, the Premiolino and the Premio Marisa Bellisario From 1998 she worked for the magazine Italia Maastrict on air on RAI3. In 2000 she was senior-author of the magazine Pianeta Economia, a RaiNews 24 and International Herald Tribune TV co-production. Varetto was also senior author and host of the economy magazine Miaeconomia on air on La7 on weekends. In 2002 she was author and host of the magazine I nostri soldi on air on RAI in 2002 She joined Sky in 2007 as author and host of the magazine Sky TG24 Economia. From July 2011 to December 2018 she served as Director of Sky TG 24, Sky’s all-news channel and then served as Vice President News at Sky Italia until January 2019 when she was appointed EVP News Projects Development. She currently holds the role of Executive Vice President Communications, Inclusion & Bigger Picture of Sky Italia.
After graduating from the lyceum, he attended the Department of Computer Engineering for a few months and then decided to enrol in Law School. In 2007-2008, he was appointed Faculty Advisor and President of the Student Council and, together with several first-year students, he founded the studentigiurisprudenza.it Student Association, an independent association that is still active today in protecting student rights. While attending the “Federico II” University of Naples, he launched an e-commerce, web marketing and social media marketing business which is still run by his former business partners. In 2007, he became a member journalist and publicist of the Italian Press Association. In 2013, at 26, he was the youngest-ever Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 17th Parliament, until 22 March 2018. Still during the 17th Parliament, he was a member of the 14th Commission on European Union Policies and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee on documentation activities and on the Chamber of Deputies Library. Together with his staff, he activated the Business Microcredit Fund, financed with contributions from the salaries of the MPs and Senators of the M5S (Five Star Movement). On 2 June 2018, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Minister of Labour and Social Policies. On 5 September 2019, he was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Fausto Panebianco is the acting G20 Sherpa of Italy in the Department office of the Diplomatic Advisor to the Sherpa office G7. Panebianco graduated with a Law degree from the University of Salerno in 1996. Following a competitive examination, he was appointed Volunteer in the diplomatic career in 1999. At the Diplomatic Institute, he undertook a professional training course in 2000. In October 2010, he was confirmed in office and appointed Secretary of Legation. Next, in September 2001, he was appointed to the General Secretariat, in the Analysis and Planning Unit. Three years later, in 2003, Panebianco was appointed Second Secretary in Berlin, Germany. Later in the year, Panebianco was upgraded to the position of First Secretary in the same office. Later in 2007, Panebianco moved to Argentina in Mar del Plata acting as Council.