Pardee Center at Meeting on Global Governance

The Pardee Center was represented by Prof. Adil Najam at a meeting on new approaches to Global Governance, held at the Paris headquarters of OECD on April 29-30, 2009. The meeting was co-organized by the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at University of Victoria, the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) at University of Waterloo and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The meeting was part of a larger series of meetings held over the last many years on the possibility of creating an L-20 (a summit mechanism of key countries for global governance). This meeting had special salience because it followed the recent G-20 Summit in London.

The meeting was attended by leading scholars and practitioners of global governance, including Angel Gurria, the Executive Director of the OECD.

Sessions focussed on (a) Reflections on the London Summit, (b) Impacts of the Economic Crisis on the Distribution of Power and the Future of International Institutions (c) International security (nuclear proliferation, terrorism, failed states), (d) Climate change and energy security?, (e) The special issues related to the “bottom billion”, and (f) Alternative approaches to Summit organization.

The Pardee Center Director, Prof. Adil Najam, introduced and led the discussion in the session on ‘the Bottom Billion.’