Free Library Lecture: India’s G20 Presidency

About the Event

Free Library Noon Time Lecture Series - This Event is In Person at the Free Library

Topic:  Upcoming G20 Meeting, The theme of India's G20 Presidency is “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth. One Family. One Future”. It is drawn from the ancient Sanskrit text of the Maha Upanishad.

Please join us at Parkway Central Library- HEIM Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement in discussion with Rachel Ziemba, FPRI Contributor, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Her research focuses on the interlinkages between economics, finance, and security issues. Her research topics include coercive economic policies such as sanctions, economic resilience and the role of state-owned investors including sovereign wealth funds.

Rachel will discuss topics from the upcoming G20 New Delhi Summit, including how the BRICS summit which sets an ambitious agenda for new financial institutions including new trade relationships, de-dollarization push and new development finance vehicles and likely major expansion of the group to a rather varied set of new members.  How should we interpret the BRICS expansion and economic and geopolitical goals? How does it interact with the G20? How realistic are the plans to build new financial infrastructure and what might the impact on the US and global security be?

She regularly serves as an expert commentator in key media outlets, and her research has been cited by a range of international financial institutions. She is the co-author of “Scenarios for Risk Management and Global Investment Strategies” (with William T. Ziemba), published by Wiley in January 2008. 

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