T20 Italy Virtual Inception Conference

Monday, February 8, 2021 1:30 PM - Tuesday, February 9, 2021 4:30 PM CET (UTC+01:00)
Public Event: Virtual Event
Feb
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Virtual Inception conference preliminary agenda

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:

Event Speakers

Rohinton P. Medhora is a CIGI distinguished fellow, professor of practice at McGill University, and an expert in international economic relations, innovation policy, development economics and governance.

Robert (Bob) Fay is a CIGI senior fellow and an expert in the field of digital economy research.