Summit Dialogue, Ep. 10: Julia Pomares on the Argentinian G20 and the Japanese G20

It was an opportunity I could not pass up. So, I sat down to interview Julia Pomares. Julia is the Executive Director of CIPPEC, - the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth, a major think tank from Argentina. CIPPEC, along with a sister think tank, CARI - the Argentine Council for International Relations, coordinated the think tank efforts for the Argentinian Government’s G20 hosting year. I spent some time with Julia during Argentina’s hosting year and have had the opportunity to work with Julia in the current Japanese G20 hosting. I was very interested in exploring with Julia her experiences as the co-coordinator for the Argentinian G20. What did she see as her mission and goal? It was a hugely eventful year with Julia and her colleagues holding many meetings with the large number of think tanks through the G20 and at the formal meetings of the T20 and G20. Julia and colleagues organized 10 Task Forces that produced over 80 policy briefs and 20 proposals for the G20. The T20 Communique was in the end 47 pages long. And yet the Leaders’ Declaration was a mere 7 pages. So, I wanted to ask her - from her experience what did she see as the relationship of the T20 and other engagement groups and the Leaders Summit. Many researchers see a growing disconnect between the G20 Leaders’ Summit and the T20 process. What was the view of Julia from her experience at the Argentinian T20 and G20 Leaders’ Summit and now the T20 and the Japanese G20 Summit.