Decoding G20 Indonesia Summit

UBC Centre for Japanese Research

Experts on the Indo-Pacific region come together in a virtual panel to discuss and analyze what transpired at the G20 Summit 2022 in Bali.

On November 15-16, G20 leaders will be meeting in Bali, Indonesia for one of the most consequential conferencessince the start of Leaders’ Summits in 2008. It can be argued that the very existence of this self-designated governing board of the global economic system is at stake this time. Set against the backdrop of international conflicts and health crises, the G20 summit is bound to be a high-decibel platform for world leaders to address ongoing challenges and take collective action. With the theme for Indonesia’s G20 Presidency being “Recover Together, Recover Stronger”, the summit focuses on three main pillars: Global Health Architecture, Sustainable Energy Transition, and Digital Transformation. Join the first-ever webinar hosted by Konwakai Chair in Centre for Japanese Research, co-sponsored by Centre for Southeast Asia Research, University of British Columbia to find out how G20 leaders are navigating economic and societal hurdles in the post-pandemic world. We bring together great observers from the Indo-Pacific region in a virtual panel to debrief what happened at the 17th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit, the lessons we should learn, and their key takeaways.O﻿pening Remarks:Hendra Halim, Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in VancouverS﻿peakers:Colin Bradford is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings. He is a specialist on global governance and the G20, and a leading catalyst for bringing experts into consultations with officials from host governments for the London, Toronto, Seoul, Cannes, Los Cabos, St. Petersburg, and Brisbane G20 Summits. He has edited Global Leadership in Transition (2010) and Global Governance Reform (2007), and contributed to The G20 Summit at Five (2014), Brookings Press books. As a government official, he was a leader in the bringing about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2004, Colin Bradford was the first person to push for transforming the G8 to G20 at leaders level and became a leading convener of meetings of influential professionals to work for international institutional reforms to bring the emerging market economies more fully into the global system. As a CIGI and Brookings senior fellow, he helped create the think tank engagement track now known as the Think20 (T20) for G20 Summits. He helped host governments organize G20 summits in the U.K., Canada, Korea, France, Mexico, Australia, China, Germany, and Argentina from 2009 through 2018. In 2016, Bradford worked with China to highlight the importance of the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the China G20 Summit. During the China G20 year, he wrote a book on Global Leadership for Achieving Systemic Sustainability published subsequently by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) which dealt with blending binaries and finding complementarities between eastern and western cultures. As a co-chair of VISION20 (V20) since 2016, Bradford has convened annual events with Brookings to encourage longer-term strategic thinking for the future. In 2018, he was a member of the T20 Advisory Board for the Argentine G20 Summit. He has also participated in all three Global Solutions Summits (GSS) in Berlin since 2017 and has been named as a GSS Global Fellow for the next three years.Alan S Alexandroff is currently the Director of the Global Summitry Project and teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs &amp; Public Policy, the University of Toronto. He has been the Co-director for the China West Dialogue (CWD) and the V20 or Vision 20 an informal engagement group. In both he is Co-director with Colin Bradford, Senior Non- Resident Fellow, Brookings. He is also a prominent author and editor for Global Summitry E-Journal, Global Summitry podcasts and the long-standing blog Rising BRICSAM. All can be found at: <a href="https://globalsummitryproject.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://globalsummitryprject.com</a>He leads efforts designed to evaluate the adequacy and evolution of global summitry and the institutional and policy proposals for the global order. Dr. Alexandroff received his B.A., cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government, International Relations from Cornell University, an M.A. in International History from the London School of Political Science and Economics and an L.L.B. from McGill Law School. His research focuses on the challenges of the global order and the major actors and their arrangements that influence global governance. Following the editing of, Can the World be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), a second volume co-edited with Andrew F. Cooper was published, Rising States; Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance (Brookings Institution Press, 2010). Since then he has published numerous articles in global order and global governance.Swaran Singh is currently Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus); Professor and former Chair, Centre for International Politics Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and President of Association of Asia Scholars and Adjunct Fellow at The Charhar Institute (Beijing) Senior Fellow Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka) and Visiting Professor, Yunnan University of Economic and Finance (China). He completed his undergraduate and graduate degree in political science from the University of Delhi in India. He then earned his MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Subsequently, he also completed a postdoctoral in Conflict Resolution at Uppsala University in Sweden. Asia, foreign policy, international relations, conflict, security, and peace-making, non-state actors in international relations and international organisations, law, and norms are among his research interests. He has published in prestigious journals such as the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, Issues and Studies, and the BIISS Journal, and he regularly writes for newspapers such as Asia Times, China Daily, and the Global Times. He is the author of fourteen books and collaborates with several universities in China and East Asia.Yoshiko Kojo is currently a professor at the Aoyama Gakuin University, Department of International Politics, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication in Tokyo, Japan. Her specialization is in International Relations (International Political Economy) &amp; International Institutions. In her early career she held assistant and associate professor positions at Kokugakuin University&#x27;s Faculty of Law. Later, she worked as an associate professor and a professor at the University of Tokyo in the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies. She received her bachelor&#x27;s degree from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Liberal Arts. She subsequently completed a master&#x27;s degree program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, Division of International Relations. At Princeton University Graduate School, Department of Politics, she earned a Ph.D. in political science and international relations. She has authored numerous research papers on global politics, economics, and international relations, as well as most recently co-authored the book Taming Japan&#x27;s Deflation: The Debate Over Unconventional Monetary Policy.Maria Monica Wihardja is a visiting fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and a former World Bank Economist in the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. In 2017, she was seconded to the Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Indonesia as a senior advisor to the Deputy Chief Staff in charge of strategic economic issues, where she oversaw the food policy reforms and stunting prevention agenda. From 2012 to 2014, she represented Indonesia at the Think20 meetings at the Los Cabos, Saint Petersburg and Brisbane G20 Summits. She also taught at the University of Indonesia from 2009 to 2013. Her main research topics are food security and agricultural reforms, jobs, and digital economy, as well as regional and global architecture. She has a PhD in Regional Science from Cornell University, a MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, and a BA in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University.M﻿oderator:Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996), is a Professor of Political Science, Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, and Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President. Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a visiting professor at Tokyo University, The Taipei School of Economics, and Sciences Po Paris. He has held other visiting positions at National Chengchi University (Taiwan), GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia). His research focuses on the comparative political economy of East Asia and on global economic and environmental governance. His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. Follow us for more events like this!Twitter – @ubcCJRFacebook – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CJRatUBC" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.facebook.com/CJRatUBC</a> Newsletter – <a href="https://cjr.iar.ubc.ca/news-events/newsletters" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://cjr.iar.ubc.ca/news-events/newsletters</a>Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ubckonwakai" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/ubckonwakai/?next=%2F</a>

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