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CIGI conducts an active program of research, policy analysis, conferences and workshops on the challenges and issues facing the G20.

CIGI’s Global Security & Politics program focuses on a range of issues in peace and conflict, including nuclear-energy governance and security sector reform.

An award-winning author and scholar, David Welch is an expert in foreign policy decision making and international security, with an emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.

This Global Economy research theme focuses on innovative methods of raising resources for necessary initiatives, including providing for the innovative governance arrangements required.

David Runnalls is a distinguished fellow and was formerly acting director of the Environment and Energy Program at CIGI.

David B. Dewitt joined CIGI as vice president of programs in July 2011, and oversees the strategy and implementation of all the organization's work programs and research-related activities.

Paul Heinbecker is a CIGI distinguished fellow and a former Canadian ambassador to Germany and the United Nations.

As China’s sustained economic growth translates into greater assertiveness of its role in the world, this CIGI research theme focuses on China’s agenda in shaping the global economy.

The Global Commission on Internet Governance was established in January 2014, to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future Internet governance.

Having previously served on the IMF executive board, Domenico Lombardi now leads CIGI's Global Economy program as a renowned expert on summitry, global governance, and monetary system reform.

Harold James is a CIGI Senior Fellow. He is Professor of History and International Affairs and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at Princeton University.

A CIGI Senior Fellow and award-winning journalist, Paul Blustein has written extensively about international economics, trade and financial crises.

A former Canadian deputy cabinet minister, NATO ambassador and G7/G8 Sherpa, Gordon Smith is a distinguished fellow and leading expert on the evolution of the G20 and global summitry.

Malcolm Knight is a CIGI Distinguished Fellow whose research focuses on the governance aspects of international financial regulation, standard-setting and international financial institutions.

James M. Boughton is a CIGI Senior Fellow and former historian of the IMF. At CIGI, James’s research focuses on the evolution of Canada’s role in international governance.

Pierre Siklos is a CIGI senior fellow and director of the Viessmann European Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University.