Media Advisory: CIGI Experts Available for Comment on G8 Summit>
Media Advisory: CIGI Experts Available for Comment on G8 Summit
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - WATERLOO, CANADA--(Marketwire - July 08, 2009) - Experts from TheCentre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) are availablefor comment and analysis on the Group of Eight (G8) Summit inL'Aquila Italy, from July 8-10th. CIGI Distinguished Fellow AndrewCooper and CIGI Senior Fellow Gregory Chin are stationed in the mediacentre at the summit. Other CIGI experts are available to commentfrom Waterloo, Toronto and Ottawa.CIGI and Chatham House are writing a blog with research andcommentary on the summit at: http://g8italy.wordpress.comClint Abbott - CIGI senior researcher, working primarily within theInternational Law, Institutions and Diplomacy working group, on theBreaking Global Deadlocks project. He can comment on multilateral andnetworked governance, international institutions, G8 and G20, energyand climate change policy.Mohan Agarwal - a CIGI senior visiting fellow, can comment on thesituation of developing countries in the world economy andinternational economics. He has worked for both the World Bank andthe International Monetary Fund. He has a long and distinguishedrecord of expertise in international trade, development and economicsas it relates to South Asia, and especially to India.Colin Bradford - a CIGI senior fellow, can comment on the G20 summitand IMF reform, different positions of industrial vs. emerging marketmembers of the G20, the difference between "G8 enlargement" and theG20 replacing the G8 as the global steering committee, and differentpositions of Europe vs. the U.S. on IMF reform.Gregory Chin - a CIGI senior fellow, is available to comment onChina's and the East Asian countries' response to the internationalfinancial crisis, the limits to the Chinese currency's role as aninternational currency, collective responses to the balance ofpayments challenges, remaking the Bretton Woods system and otherglobal economic architecture, and the collective interests of the newG5/emerging powers grouping.Jennifer Clapp - a CIGI chair and program leader, available tocomment on international food trade and the current food crisis,international agriculture trade and the WTO, international wastemanagement issues, international agriculture biotechnology andbiosafety policy, trade and the environment.Andrew F. Cooper - the associate director of CIGI and a distinguishedfellow, can provide commentary on the rising economic and diplomaticpower of countries, such as China, India, Brazil, South Africa andMexico, as well as their inclusion in the G20 summit structure andthe ongoing G8 Heiligendamm Dialogue Process; Canadian andcomparative foreign policies; innovative diplomacy; global health;celebrity diplomacy; and global governance.John Curtis - a CIGI distinguished fellow, he can provide backgroundand insight into factors leading to the current financial/economiccrisis and policies, matters relating to international trade (WTO,NAFTA etc.), the performance of the world economy (history, policy,countries etc.). He is one of Canada's best recognized economicpolicy advisors and was the first Chief Economist at the Departmentof Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).Michael Erdman - CIGI project officer with the Shifting Global OrderWorking Group, is able to comment on recent G8 history and complianceof G8 member-states with plans made at previous G8 Summits and ontrade and protectionism. Michael is able to provide commentary inFrench, Spanish and Italian.Eric Helleiner - a CIGI chair in International Governance, cancomment on international financial regulation, the management ofinternational payments imbalances, the history of the Bretton Woodssystem, the U.S. dollar's role as an international currency,globalization of finance, international debt and North Americanmonetary relations.Paul Heinbecker - a CIGI distinguished fellow, has attended a dozenworld summits. He can comment on Canadian foreign policy generallyand specifically, including the G20 at the Leaders' level and summitprocesses; the UN; environmental policy issues, particularly climatechange and the Kyoto protocol; international security including armscontrol and disarmament, human security, human rights, theInternational Criminal Court, the Middle East, Iran, Turkey,Afghanistan, the Iraq war, Kosovo, U.S. foreign policy and the EU andtransatlantic policy issues, particularly Germany.Daniel Schwanen - CIGI deputy executive director of programs, cancomment on the links between the financial markets and the realeconomy, macro-economic imbalances (fiscal and current account),impact of the global financial crisis and responses to it in Canadaand abroad. Prior to CIGI, he was an international economist with theCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, where he covered G7 economicdevelopments and the European Community single market process.Ramesh Thakur - CIGI distinguished fellow, the former vice rector andsenior vice rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo(1998-2007) and assistant secretary-general of the United Nations.Dr. Thakur can comment on the genesis and role of the G20 at theLeaders' level in addressing global deadlocks. In September 2008 hewas appointed inaugural director of the Balsillie School ofInternational Affairs. He can comment on United Nations, peaceoperations, arms control and disarmament, Indian politics,international relations or Asia and the Pacific.For more information please visit our website at:http://www.cigionline.org/articles/2009/06/insight-g8About CIGI: The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that addressesinternational governance challenges. Led by a group of experiencedpractitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research,forms networks, advances policy debate, builds capacity, andgenerates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conductingan active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI'sinterdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, businessand academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2002by Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM (Research In Motion), andcollaborates with and gratefully acknowledges support from a numberof strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and theGovernment of Ontario. For more information, please visitwww.cigionline.org.Contacts:CIGINeve PericMedia Contact+1.519.885.2444 ext 390 or Mobile: +1.519.590.2626nperic(at)cigionline.orgwww.cigionline.orgThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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