About the Program

The global economic crisis will have long-term implications for the transatlantic economicrelationship and the global economy. Prioritiesfor policy makers in the years to come will be driven by addressing challenges related to global imbalances, the management of budget deficits, the reform of the global financial institutions,and the re-working of the global economicgovernance structure.

In responding to this new, more global policy environment, the Economics Program has launched a G-20 in the Global Economy initiative, which promotes timely and policy-relevant analysis and debate on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond on the role of the G-20 and the various global economic policy issues on the G-20’s agenda.

Spearheaded by an international Advisory Group, composed of experts from the private sector, government, academia, and think tanks, GMF’s G20 in the Global Economy program strives to:

• Contribute to the G20 agenda through analysis on the forum’s transition from a crisis-fighting committee to a global, flexible, and informal steering group capable of transcending traditional North-South divides on economic issues faced by multilateral institutions.
• Inform the G20 on policy issues through practical and policy relevant analysis on the critical issues facing the G20 ranging from financial regulation, to multilateral trade, global imbalances, fiscal consolidation, and global growth. Proposals are disseminated through the G20 Paper Series briefs, which are authored by GMF’s high level Advisory Group, and the G20 Event Series, in which various audiences in Washington and Brussels are briefed on economic challenges of global importance.
• Holding the G20 accountable through public and embassy briefings, virtual forum podcast conversations with experts and former government officials, and partnerships with initiatives such as the Global Trade Alert, which monitors the pledges of G20 members’ to refrain from implementing tariff barriers.