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G20 Research Group
The G20 Research Group is a global network of scholars, students and professionals in the academic, research,
business, non-governmental and other communities who follow the work of the G20 leaders, finance ministers and
central bank governors, and other G20 institutions. It is directed from Trinity College and the Munk School of
Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, which also hosts the G7 Research Group and BRICS Research Group.
Our mission is to serve as the world’s leading independent source of information and analysis on the G20.
As scholars, we accurately describe, explain and interpret what the G20 and its members do. As teachers and public
educators, we present to the global community and G20 governments the results of our research and information
about the G20. As citizens, we foster transparency and accountability in G20 governance, through assessments
of G20 members’ compliance with their summit commitments and the connection between civil society and G20
governors. And as professionals, we offer evidence-based policy advice about G20 governance, but do not engage
in advocacy for or about the G20 or the issues it might address.
Briefing Books and eBooks Working with Newsdesk
Media in the United Kingdom, for each summit the G20
Research Group produces the authoritative “briefing
book,” freely available in print and online, outlining the
perspectives of the leaders and key stakeholders and
offering analysis of the major issues by leading global
experts. It also works with Newsdesk Media to produce
free eBooks and analysis available at G7G20.com.
Compliance Assessments For each summit the G20
Research Group, working with Moscow’s National
Research University Higher School of Economics,
assesses each G20 member’s compliance with its previous
summit priority commitments. Cumulative compliance
reports are also compiled on key issues.
Pre-summit Conferences With a local partner in the
country hosting the summit along with a core group
of international partners, the G20 Research Group
produces a conference in the immediate lead-up to each
summit analyzing the institutional workings of the G20
and the issues, plans and prospects for the summit.
Field Team The G20 Research Group sends a field
team to each summit and some ministerial meetings
to assist the world’s media, to issue its own reports and
analyses, to allow students to witness world politics
at the highest level at close hand, and to collect the
documents and artifacts uniquely available at the summit
to build the G20 archives at Trinity College’s John
Graham Library.
G20 Information Centre @ www.g20.utoronto.ca
The G20 Information Centre is a comprehensive
permanent collection of information and analysis
available online at no charge. It complements the G8
Information Centre, which houses publicly available
archives on the G20 as well as the G7 and G8, and the
BRICS Information Centre, as well as Newsdesk Media’s
G7G20.com.
Speakers Series The G20 Research Group hosts
occasional speakers in its efforts to educate scholars
and the public about the issues and agenda of the
G20. Past speakers have included senior officials of
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
and scholars and policy makers from Turkey, China,
Australia, Brazil, Italy and elsewhere.
Research The G20 Research Group conducts research on
the patterns and causes of summit and system performance
and the G20’s relationship with the G7/8, BRICS, United
Nations and other formal multilateral institutions.
Publications include:
• Delivering Sustainable Energy Access, by John Kirton
(Newsdesk Media)
• The G8-G20 Relationship in Global Governance, edited by
Marina Larionova and John Kirton (Ashgate)
• G20 Governance for a Globalized World, by John Kirton
(Ashgate) (available soon in Chinese)
• The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentation, by
Peter I. Hajnal (Ashgate)
G20 Research Group
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Room 209N, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7 Canada
Telephone 1-416-946-8953 • E-mail g20@utoronto.ca • Twitter @g20rg
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