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About G20 Insights

The G20 Insights Platform offers policy proposals to the G20. It is an initiative of the Think20 Engagement Group.

The Policy Briefs, produced by Task Forces from the Think20 (T20) Group and other sources, are clustered by task forces and policy areas.

Policy Recommendations are significant, implementable policy proposals for specified G20 decision makers. Each recommendation contains a statement of the underlying policy challenge and the central policy proposal, including an analysis of the relevant considerations and a rationale for the proposal. Furthermore, recommendations will typically be embedded in a current policy framework by linking to relevant G20 initiatives (e.g. agreements, policies, and monitoring reports) as well as background analysis. This comprehensive overview will support sound G20 analysis and policies.

Policy briefs also contain vision statements which explain an approach to policy making and communicate it to the public.

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The G20 Insights Platform – Advisory Board decides on Policy Brief submission to the Insights Platform. Its composition mirror the G20 troika setting (the former, current and future G20 Presidency) for promoting relevance and coherence. It has the important responsibility of ensuring that all contributions to the Insights Platform are of high quality, novelty and implementability.

Distinguished experts from the T20 network (think tanks from G20 countries) and the Council for Global Problem-Solving will be the primary contributors to this G20-insights platform. The G20 Insights Platform is complementary to the G20 Information Centre by the Munk School of Global Affairs, the University of Toronto, which provides online official documents by the G20 group.

Distinguished members of the G20 Insights Platform – Advisory Board:

Dirk Messner
President of the German Environment Agency, German Environment Agency
Wang Wen
Executive Dean and Professor, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY)
Leena Srivastava
Deputy Director General for Science, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
John Kirton
Director, G20 Research Group
Julia Pomares
Guest Professor, School of Government, Di Tella University
Dennis J. Snower
President, Global Solutions Initiative

Contributing Think Tanks

The list of the contributing Thinks Tanks can be found here. 

T20 Mandate

Argentina has assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2017. The Argentine government has mandated CIPPEC and CARI to organize the T20 process during its presidency until November 30, 2018.

Japan has assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2018. The Japanese government has mandated the Asian Development Bank Institute, The Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Institute for International Monetary Affairs to take the lead role in coordinating the T20 Japan 2019 process during its presidency until November 30, 2019.

Saudi Arabia assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2019, and has mandated the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center to take the lead role in coordinating the Think20 Saudi Arabia 2020 process until November 30, 2020. Ten Think20 Task Forces have been established to prepare Policy Briefs for the ongoing dialogue with G20 decision-makers and other relevant stakeholders.

Italy assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2020, and has mandated the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) as T20 National Coordinator and Chair with Istituti Affari Internazionali (IAI) as T20 Co-Chair and Università Bocconi, Milano, as T20 Summit Co-Chair. Eleven Think20 Task Forces have been established to prepare Policy Briefs for the ongoing dialogue with G20 decision-makers and other relevant stakeholders.

In 2022 Indonesia took over the G20 Presidency. Universitas Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), with Lead Co-Chairs –  Bambang Brodjonegoro and Djisman S. Simandjuntak were mandated to lead the T20 process. They established nine Think20 Task Forces to prepare Policy Briefs and provide recommendations for the G20 Summit. 

In 2023 India is leading the G20 Presidecy. Observer Research Foundaton with its Core Group Members Sujan R. Chinoy (Chair), Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA, Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), Arvind Gupta, Director, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), Rohan Jaitley, Lawyer, Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor, Chandigarh University (CU), and T20 International Advisory Board Members, were mandated to lead the T20 process.  With seven established Task Forces, they will provide policy recommendations for the G20 India Summit. 

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