Global Economic Governance: Progress and Prospects in the G20, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Speakers
Arvind Subramanian
Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Antoine van Antoine W. van Agtmael
Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Emerging Markets Management LLC, Director, Strategic Investment Group
Eli Whitney II Debevoise
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, Former U.S. Executive Director, World Bank
Presider
David E. Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times
Introductory Speakers
Stewart M. Patrick
Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations

This session is part of a Council on Foreign Relations symposium on Rising Powers and Global Institutions in the Twenty-First Century and was made possible through generous support from the Robina Foundation.

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