Fahad Almubarak is a State Minister and Member of Saudi Council of Ministers since 2019. Dr. Almubarak is also the Saudi G20 Sherpa since September 2018.

Before that, Almubarak served as an Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court and he was the Secretary-General of G20 Saudi Secretariat from 2017.

He has held several executive positions in the past 38 years in both governmnet and private sectors. He was the Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) from 2011 to 2016, Member of the Shoura Council, Chairman and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2011, and he was the first Chairman of Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).

Almubarak started his career as Assistant Professor at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals. Almubarak also served as chairman and member in many private and public companies' board of directors in several industries such as telecomunication, banking, investment, insurance, commerce and industry.

H.E. Dr. Saud Mohammed Alsati H.E. Dr. Saud Mohammed Alsati is serving as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Republic of India since January 2012. He has done his PhD in International Politics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A (1999). He has previously served as Permanent Observer for Saudi Arabia at the Organization of American States (OAS) from 2007 until 2012. He has in the past, participated in a number of international seminars, conferences and forums including Davos Economic Conference in Switzerland, Tallberg Forum in Sweden, Wilton Park in Britain, GCC European Dialogue Conference at Menton in France and 6th Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference in Amritsar, India.

Amar Bhattacharya is Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution, and Co-Lead of the Sustainable Growth and Finance Initiative of the New Climate Economy under the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. His focus areas are the global economy, development finance, global governance, and the links between climate and development including on the role of sustainable infrastructure. His recent major publications include Attributes and Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure and Delivering on Sustainable Infrastructure for Better Development and Better Climate. From April 2007 until September 2014 he was Director of the Group of 24, an intergovernmental group of developing country Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. Prior to taking up his position with the G24, Mr. Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. His last position was as Senior Advisor and Head of the International Policy and Partnership Group. In this capacity, he was the focal point for the Bank’s engagement with key international groupings and institutions such as the G7/G8, G20, IMF, OECD and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Delhi and Brandeis University and his graduate education at Princeton University.

Mr. Pramod Bhasin resume spans a Global Professional and Entrepreneurial career in Financial Services and Business Process Management.

Mr. Bhasin is currently the Chairman of Clix Capital, a Financial Services Business in India focused on providing digital platforms and financial services to consumers and small businesses. Clix Capital is the former GE Capital entity in India which was acquired by a consortium of partners including himself and AION, the private equity firm.

He was the President & CEO of GE Capital in India from 1994 to 2005, and GE Capital Asia from 1998 to 2001. At GE Capital India, he was the founder of their Financial Services business and also built the joint venture with the State Bank of India in credit cards (known as SBI Cards) and with HDFC Ltd. in Consumer Finance, apart from GE Capital itself. He worked extensively with the State Bank of India to launch and grow the Cards business from inception, and help build its foundations and future success.

Mr. Bhasin is considered the Founder and Pioneer of the Business Process Industry in India. He founded Genpact in 1996 (as a subsidiary of GE Capital, India) and built it from start into a Global business that currently spans 20+ countries and employs 80,000 people. He led Genpact from inception and took it to IPO on NYSE in 2005 and ran it as a US listed public company until 2011. Under his leadership, Genpact also pioneered this industry in Easter Europe, China and Latin America. Genpact currently has a market capitalization of approximately $8 billion and revenues of over $3 billion.

Prior to GE Capital India, he was based in Stanford CT, USA with GE & GE Capital for 10 years and in London for 5 years.

He sits on the Governing Board of Help Age India, Vishwas, an NGO for handicapped children amongst others. He currently serves on the Board of DLF Ltd. In the past, has served on the Board of Bank of India. He has also been the Chairman of Nasscom and was voted IT Man of the Year by DataQuest, and Manger of the Year by EY & Co.

He is Chartered Accountant (England & Wales) by profession and an alumni of Shri Ram College of Commerce.

Mr. Rahul Chhabra took over the post of Secretary (Economic Relations), Ministry of External Affairs on 8th June 2020. Prior to taking over his current post, Mr. Chhabra was High Commissioner to Kenya, Ambassador to Somalia and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) & the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), based in Nairobi from Nov. 2018 to June 2020. He was Ambassador to Hungary and Bosnia & Herzegovina from August 2015 to October 2018.

At Headquarters, he worked as Joint Secretary (Central Europe). He conceived and organized the first two editions of the India-Central Europe Business Forum which has now become a regular feature in the Indian business calendar. During this assignment, he was instrumental in focusing India’s foreign policy towards the Arctic and the V-4.

While earlier serving in New Delhi, he worked to promote foreign investment flows into India, having been part of India’s delegation to the World Economic Forum at Davos. Later, he served as Director for External Publicity at the Ministry of External Affairs and Director in the Foreign Secretary’s Office.

During his stints abroad, Mr. Chhabra has served in Kenya, Hungary, China, United States, Philippines, France, Senegal and Belgium.

After an undergraduate degree in Economics, on the merit list, from the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, he obtained a graduate degree in Economics, with a national scholarship, from the premier institute Delhi School of Economics and Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, where he was placed on the Roll of Honour.

Mr. Rahul Chhabra is married to Kavita and they have two adult sons.

Peter Draper is Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; Associated Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE); and a Board member of the Australian Services Roundtable. In 2020 he is co-chair of the Saudi Arabia-led Think 20’s Task Force 1 on Trade and Investment. He is a recipient of an honorary Doctorate degree from the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany. For ten years he was, respectively, member, chair, vice chair, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Global Trade and FDI system. He was also Senior Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs. Previously, he worked in South Africa’s national Department of Trade and Industry in bilateral economic relations (East Asia and Mercosur), and as head of the economic analysis and research unit in the Department’s International Trade and Economic Development Division. Prior to that he was an academic teaching economic history and political economy, and headed the Department of Economics and Economic History at the then University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal).

Dr. Dennis Görlich is Head of the Kiel Institute’s Global Challenges Centre and Managing Director of the Global Solutions Summit, IfW’s annual research-based and solution-oriented conference addressing the most important global challenges. His research interests are the impact of technological transformations on the division of labour between and within countries, on organizations and governance. Dennis holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kiel, Germany, and a Master in Economics from Maastricht University.

Nella Hendriyetty joined ADBI as Senior Capacity Building and Training Economist in January 2019.

Prior to joining ADBI, she served as deputy director for the G20 forum at the Fiscal Policy Agency, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia from 2016 to 2019. She also was Senior Compliance Officer in the Indonesia Financial Intelligence Unit (INTRAC/PPATK) from 2005-2010 and Head of the Sub-Division of Accounting Compliance for Securities Institutions in the Indonesian Capital Market Supervisory Agency (now the Financial Service Authority/OJK) from 2004 to 2005. She holds a PhD in economics from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, and a MSc in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States.

A former civil servant, Mr. Anwarul Hoda joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1962. He worked in the Ministry of Commerce from 1974-81 and 1985-93 in various positions.

In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Director General ICITO/GATT and in 1995 he took over as Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization at Geneva in which position he continued till 1999.

During his tenure as Deputy Director General in World Trade Organization Mr. Hoda was associated closely with the initiations of negotiations on information technology on the fringes of the 1st ministerial meeting in December 1996. He was also the 1st Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology in the WTO. Mr. Hoda has authored the WTO publication “Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and WTO” in 2001. Chapter III of this publication includes an analysis of bilateral and plurilateral negotiations including the Information Technology Agreement. Chapter V of this publication also deals with technical issues relating to tariff concessions including the establishment of schedules, their rectifications and modifications. This publication has been revised and the 2nd edition issued in 2018.

From 2004 to 2009 he was a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India. As a member he was in charge of International Economic Relations, Transport, Urban Infrastructure. During his tenure he submitted several reports including those on Mineral Policy, Improving the Competitiveness of India’s Services Sector and Cutting Logistics Costs.

From 2009 till date he is Chair Professor, Trade Policy in Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

He has written extensively on trade policy issues during the last three decades. A selected list of publications is given below.

• Developing Countries in the International Trading System (Allied, 1987)
• Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and the WTO (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• WTO Agreement & Indian Agriculture (Social Science Press, 2002)
• WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) with A. Gulati.

Chetan Ghate is a professor of economics in the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) – Delhi and has been teaching in ISI since 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate School, Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and B.A. in Economics from Colorado College. His research focus is on macroeconomics, monetary economics, macro-development and the Indian macroeconomy. He has published widely in his field: recent papers have appeared in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics and Economic Inquiry. In 2014, he was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Gold Medal given to the best research economist in India under the age of 45.

Chetan has held a variety of visiting faculty positions in India and abroad, and has been closely involved with the Reserve Bank of India in an advisory capacity. He recently completed a four-year term as a member of the monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India. From 2012-2013 he was the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor in Macroeconomics at ICRIER (New Delhi). From February 2013 to September 2016, he was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for monetary policy at the Reserve Bank of India. In September 2013, he served as a member of the Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework, which provided the blueprint for the current inflation targeting framework in India. He is a member of the academic advisory board of the Reserve Bank of India Academy, and serves on the editorial board of the RBI Occasional Paper Series. He is also a member of the advisory committee of the National Accounts System (ACNAS) in the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation.

Mr Manoj Jhalani Was member of Indian Administrative Service, 1987 batch, MP Cadre

Academic Qualifications
• MBA in Public Service from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom with distinction
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (B. Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology   (IIT), Kanpur.

Employment History
• November 2019 to date- Director, Health Systems Development, WHO, Regional Office for       South-East Asia, New Delhi.
• Between March 2012 to November 2019, he served as Joint Secretary (Policy) and later as     Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM) while holding the post of Additional                Secretary and Special Secretary, MOHFW, Govt. of India.
• Between 1987 to 2012, he served at sub-district, district and state levels in planning,                 designing and implementing policies and programmes of socio-economic development           particularly health sector in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Awards and accomplishments
• He has co-authored several papers in the area of health systems and policy.
• He has many awards and accomplishments to his credit including the UNIATF award for his   contribution towards addressing NCD challenge in India.

Dr. Rajat Kathuria is Director and Chief Executive at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. He has over 20 years experience in teaching and 15 years experience in economic policy, besides research interests on a range of issues relating to regulation and competition policy. He has worked with the World Bank, Washington DC as a Consultant and carried out research assignments for a number of international organizations, including ILO, UNCTAD, LirneAsia, World Bank and ADB. He has published in international and national journals, besides in popular magazines and newspapers. He is founder member of Broadband Society for Universal Access and served on the Board of Delhi Management Association. He is on several government committees and on the research advisory council of SBI. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Stephens College, a Masters from Delhi School of Economics and a PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Professor Ilona Kickbusch is the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Professor Kickbusch key interests relate to the political determinants of health, health in all policies and global health. She established the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute and in this context advises countries on their global health strategies and trains health specialists and diplomats in global health diplomacy. She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board and the WHO High-Level Independent Commission on NCDS and is co-chair of UHC 2030. She acts as Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin. She has been involved in German G7 and G20 activities relating to global health and chairs the international advisory board for the development of the German global health strategy. She publishes widely and serves on various commissions and boards. She initiated the @wgh300 list of women leaders in global health. She is program chair of the leaders in health network SCIANA. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on “Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world.” Professor Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization. She was a key instigator of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and WHOs Healthy Cities Network and has remained a leader in this field, most recently advising on the WHO activities related to Promoting Health in the SDGs. She was the director of the Global Health Division at Yale University School of Public Health and responsible for the first major Fulbright Programme on global health. She has published widely and received many prizes and recognitions. She has been awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in recognition of her "invaluable contributions to innovation in governance for global health and global health diplomacy".

Patrick Low is a Fellow of the Asia Global Institute and also works as a Geneva-based consultant on trade and trade-related matters. From 2016 to 2019 he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong, where he taught MBA students. He was also the Vice-President for Research at the Fung Global Institute from 2013 to 2015, where most of his work was on the role of services in production and trade. From 1995 to 2013, Patrick Low was with the World Trade Organization Secretariat in Geneva, where he worked for two years on services before becoming the Chief Economist of the WTO (1997-2013). During this period, he also served briefly as the Chief of Staff to WTO Director-General Mike Moore (1999-2001). From 1990 to 1994, he worked on trade in the research complex at the World Bank. Prior to that he was a Visiting Professor at El Colegio de México, Mexico City (1987-1990). From 1980 to 1987, he worked in various capacities for the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). He holds BA and PhD degrees in economics and has written widely on a range of trade policy and related issues.

Vincenzo De Luca took office on 1 February 2016 as Director-General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Italy, after having served in the same Directorate General as Deputy Director-General and Principal Director for the Internationalisation of the Italian Economic System (since January 2014).

He has been a career diplomat since 1989 and has been given several assignments at the Foreign Ministry and at the diplomatic representations in Khartoum, Tunis, Paris (at the permanent Representation at the OECD) and in Shanghai. He has a long-standing expertise in the internationalisation of the economic system of the public and private sector, both in Central Offices, in the capacity of Diplomatic Advisor of the Ministries of Industry, Transports and Economic Development, and in large corporations like ENI and ENEL, where he served as Vice President for Institutional International Relations. During the past few years, he played a relevant role in the organisation of the EXPO Milano 2015 as President of the Foreign Ministry’s Task Force, capitalising on his experience as Consul General in Shanghai.

A former civil servant, Ajay Mathur Ajay Mathur is Director General of TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change.

He was Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in the Government of India from 2006 till February, 2016, and responsible for bringing energy efficiency into our homes, offices, and factories, through initiatives such as the star labelling programme for appliances, the Energy Conservation Building Code, and the Perform, Achieve and Trade programme for energy-intensive industries.

Dr Mathur was earlier with TERI from 1986 to 2000, and then headed the Climate Change Team of World Bank in Washington DC. He was President of Suzlon Energy Limited, also headed the interim Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund.

He has been a key Indian climate-change negotiator, and was also the Indian spokesperson at the 2015 climate negotiations at Paris. He is a global leader on technological approaches to address climate change; and is co-chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global group of industrial, financial and think-tank leaders focusing on strategies for companies and countries to move towards climate-friendly energy futures.

Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner
Head of Department External Economic Policy

In January 2014, Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner (M.Sc.) became head of the depart-ment “External Economic Policy” at the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI), Federation of German Industries. Until December 2013, she was a member of the Executive Board of the German Institute for International and Security Affa-irs (SWP), a policy-oriented think-tank based in Berlin. Her fields of interest in-clude international trade and finance as well as commodity markets. Before joining the SWP, she worked for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), where she headed the program “Globalization and the World Economy” (2000-2002). From 2005 to 2006, Ms. Mildner was a lecturer at the John F. Ken-nedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In spring 2010, she was a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, where she is still a non-resident Senior Fellow. In fall 2011 she was a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy in Washington. Ms. Mildner conducted her Bachelor studies in economics and North American stu-dies at the Free University of Berlin and earned a Master of Science in international political economy from the London School of Economics (2000). She wrote her PhD thesis at the Free University of Berlin on the economic and political rationale of export credit finance in the United States. During her PhD studies, she attended the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) of Yale University (2002-2003).

Shingo Miyamoto is Minister (Economic & Development) at the Embassy of Japan in India. After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1994, Mr. Miyamoto held various positions including Head of Political Section at the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia, and Counsellor of Economic Section at the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America. Before he assumed the current position in September 2019, Mr. Miyamoto served as Director of International Safety and Security Cooperation Division of Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coordinating Japan’s Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Organized Crime cooperation work, as well as Director of Second Southeast Asia Division of Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Department, covering Japan’s bilateral relations with the Maritime ASEAN countries. Mr. Miyamoto has served as official interpreter for a number of Prime Minsters of Japan as well as Emperors Naruhito and Akihito. He holds an MS in Biological Sciences from Tsukuba University and an MA in International Relations from Stanford University.

Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
is an Indian politician and India's Sherpa to the G20. Shri Suresh Prabhu has held various cabinet portfolios.

He was formerly the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Minister for Civil Aviation and Minister for Railways and in the First Modi ministry. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

Mr. Peter Max Rimmele , Resident Representative to India, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Peter Max Rimmele is currently the Resident Representative of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Office, India. He has a First Law Degree from Freiburg University, as well as a Second Law Degree from the Ministry of Justice Baden Württemberg, Germany and a M.A. in Geography. After working as a jurist, judge and lecturer, he took public office as Ministerialrat, Head of Division at the State Ministry of the Interior in Saxony, Germany, from November 1991 on until 2000. There he first served in the Police and Security and later in the Local Government Department. On behalf of the German Foreign Ministry he served in East Timor as Registrar General, Head of Civil Registry and Notary Services (UNTAET), and became later the principal Advisor for Governance Reform for GIZ (German International Cooperation) to the Ministry of Administrative Reform and the Anti-Corruption-Commission of the Republic of Indonesia, where he served for 7 years. He then moved to Rwanda, also as Principal Advisor Good Governance/Justice Program. Earlier he was Resident Representative Lebanon, Director of Rule of Law Program Middle East North Africa, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

José Siaba Serrate
Economist from Universidad de Buenos Aires and UCEMA. 2017 Konex Prize on Economic Analysis.

Member of:
Think 20 (T20 Community). Chair /Co-Chair of the T20 International Financial Architecture Task Force under Argentina´s, Japan´s and Saudi Arabia´s G20 Presidencies.
Argentine Academy of Capital Markets
Argentine Council of Foreign Relations (CARI
International Policy Institute of the Argentine Academy of Political and Moral Sciences

Currently teaches at:
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA)
Argentine Institute of Capital Markets (IAMC)

Formerly taught at:
National Foreign Service Institute (ISEN)
Universidad de Belgrano
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Regular columnist of:
Ambito Financiero (Argentina´s leading financial daily)

Founder and CEO of:
Estudio Siaba Serrate (Business Consultancy)

Formerly General Manager of:
Ambito Financiero.

Alok Sheel is RBI Chair Professor in Macroeconomics at the Indian Council of Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for thirty four years (1982-2016), his last position equivalent to Secretary to Government of India. He has held several important assignments under both the Union and State (Kerala) governments, including multiple stints in the treasury departments where he was responsible for budget formulation and management, interface with multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank, IMF and UNDP, and international financial markets. He has Diplomatic experience as Counselor Economic in the Indian Embassy in Washington DC, and later Chaired the SAARC Development Fund in Bhutan. He has several years of experience at the senior level in macro-economic policy as Secretary, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, and as a multilateral interlocutor in the G 20 in both the finance and Sherpa channels. He was a member of the Indian PM delegation from the first Summit in Washington DC (2008) to the seventh Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico (2012), at the height of the Global Financial Crisis. He is widely travelled and resourced for international conferences and workshops on the global economy, the G 20, economic governance and the international monetary system. He did his schooling from Sherwood College, Nainital, BA History (Hons) from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, MSc (with distinction) in Macro-economic Policy from University of Bradford, U.K., and M.A & PhD in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His other interests include running, English poetry and literature, history, writing, crossword puzzles, western classical music, astronomy, and postage Stamps of British India. He has published several full length articles in books and journals, including a full length book ‘Rethinking Macro-economics 101: A Ringside View of the Global Financial Crisis from Asia in Real Time’ (Academic Foundation 2015) http://academicfoundation.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=570 He has been a regular commentator on economic issues over the last 20 years in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) and the East Asia Forum, and has contributed about 200 opinion pieces in The Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Mint, Indian Express, and Financial Times (London). His publications can be accessed and downloaded from his homepage at http://www.aloksheel.com/pap_pub.htm

Nicholas Stern (Lord Stern) is a globally recognised economist, and one the world’s leading authorities on climate change, international development and global economic growth.

Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at London School of Economics, and Head of the India Observatory and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is President of the British Academy (from July 2013), and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014).

From 2000-03 he was Chief Economist at the World Bank, and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. From 1994-99 he was Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

From 2005-07 he was adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development, reporting to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this role he headed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. He was also Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-07; and was also Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa. In 2009 he was President of the European Economic Association.

Lord Stern’s work in academic life has included teaching and research positions at many of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing.

His research and publications have focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition. His first books were on tea in Kenya and the Green Revolution in India (where he lived for 8 months in a village in Northern India in 1974/75).

Lord Stern has written books on crime, criminal statistics in the UK, public finance and development. “Growth & Empowerment: Making Development Happen” was published in April 2005. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was published in January 2007 by Cambridge University Press. He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles. “A Blueprint for a Safer Planet” was published in April 2009.

Awards for Nicholas Stern include:

• International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Global Environment Award, 2010
• Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, Tufts University, 2010
• Fundación Ideas (Madrid) 2010 Award for work on sustainability and climate change (December)
• The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2011, BBVA Foundation

Jay Surti is Deputy Division Chief in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF. His work portfolio has covered global and country focused financial stability analysis, surveillance and policy design. He has also worked in the IMF's African and European Departments, as desk on a number of countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University.

Dr Peter Taylor has more than 30 years of experience in international development and currently is Director of Research at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK. Previously he was Director, Strategic Development, at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada where he was responsible for leading IDRC’s strategic planning processes. During his ten years with IDRC, he also served as Acting Director of IDRC’s Inclusive Economies Program Area, and as Associate Director for the Think Tank Initiative, a ten-year, multi-partner programme that supports strengthening of policy research organizations in Africa, South Asia and Latin America. He also worked previously at IDS as a Research Fellow, Head of Graduate Studies, and Leader of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team; as Education Technical Advisor with the Swiss NGO Helvetas in Vietnam; as Lecturer in Agricultural Education at the University of Reading, UK; and as Head of Agriculture in a rural secondary school in northern Botswana. Peter holds a PhD and MSc in agricultural education, and a BSc degree in animal sciences. He has research, teaching and writing interests in the theory and practice of organizational development and capacity strengthening, evaluation and learning, and facilitation of participatory and social change processes in a diverse range of international contexts.