CIGI Special G20 Report: Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit is a compendium of brief policy papers by respected academics and practitioners who have studied the G20. The Special Report highlights the breadth of CIGI's research on economic governance, financial regulation and reform, international trade, and the capacity of the expanded G20 leadership to prevent or resolve future crises. Edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Daniel Schwanen, and with a foreword by CIGI’s Chair Jim Balsillie, the CIGI Special G20 Report: Flashpoints for the Pittsburgh Summit contains thoughtful commentary and comprehensive policy recommendations on how the G20 can strengthen economic governance and what core issues must be addressed at the Pittsburgh Summit.

About the Authors

Former CIGI Senior Fellow

Former CIGI Distinguished Fellow

Bessma Momani is a CIGI senior fellow with a Ph.D. in political science, focusing on international political economy. She is currently on sabbatical from the University of Waterloo at the NATO Defense College where she is a fellow examining research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies in dual‑use applications.

Colin Bradford is an international economist, who has been a government official in the US Senate, the US Treasury and USAID in the Carter and Clinton administrations, an international civil servant at the World Bank, the OECD and the OAS; and a professor of economics at Yale and American University, as well as an expert at the Brookings Institution, CIGI and the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin.

Former CIGI Senior Fellow

Former Senior Fellow

Former CIGI China Research Chair and Senior Fellow

Former Senior Fellow

Pierre L. Siklos is a CIGI senior fellow who specializes in macroeconomics, with an emphasis on the study of inflation, central banks and financial markets. 

Former CIGI Chair of Global Systems