The Finance Ministers and Central Bankers of the G20 met as scheduled in Moscow at the end of the week. This periodic meeting is just a part, though a key part, of the “iceberg” that is global summitry today. A fascinating factoid – this meeting of “finance” officials does not generally include the central bank officials when it gathers at the actual G20 Leaders Summit. Given the key role that central bankers have been playing in trying to “right” the global economy, that probably should come to an end. But in any case their communiqué underlined the Iceberg Theory that I and others have identified for some time.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Expanding the Media Platforms at Rising BRICSAM
Alan Alexandroff, currently the Director of the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, has been blogging at Rising BRICSAM for some five years. By way of the announcement below, the blog master now signals that Rising BRICSAM is taking a big leap forward with the expansion of the blog to include video posts as well as the traditional blog posts.
In addition with this announcement the blog master is signalling that interviews as well as commentary will soon be a part of Rising BRICSAM.
Engaging in Concert – The Fifth S&ED
This coming week the fifth round of the S&ED (Strategic and Economic Dialogue) between China and the US will be held in Washington. Many have characterized this as a monumental “bureaucratic circus” with each side bring as many as two hundred officials to these now annual meetings. And at times these events indeed have appeared to be like that – a kind of gigantic bilateral “meet and greet”.