Global Solutions Fellows
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The Global Solutions Initiative’s Fellows program encourages recognized researchers, policy advisors and thought-leaders to engage with scholars, implementers and civil society to bring research-based insights to the GSI network, the Group of 20 (G20) and Think20 (T20) processes, and the wider public.
Our fellows produce innovative, implementable recommendations for tackling global problems, they have a strong voice in the public debate on global issues and are well-connected to policymakers concerned with global problem-solving.
Global Solutions Fellows participate in activities of the Global Solutions Initiative and contribute to its research and interaction with policymakers. The Global Solutions Initiative’s staff offers its fellows privileged support in the fulfillment of their roles.
Appointed for a two-year period, it is standard practice to invite Global Solutions Fellows to partake in the Global Solutions Summit, the Initiative’s annual conference in Berlin. Fellows consult in aspects of its program and assist in finding qualified speakers. Furthermore, fellows are actively involved in the various programs of the GSI by participating and speaking at events such as workshop sessions, producing content that is aligned with the work of the GSI, and consulting on issues surrounding the G20 and G7.
Progress in the Global Solutions Fellows’ global problem-solving efforts is assessed annually, and future collaboration with the Global Solutions Initiative is developed on this basis.
For more details about our Global Solutions Fellows program, please contact us.
The Global Solutions Fellows
Colin Bradford
Lead Co-Chair, China-West Dialogue
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Colin Bradford is a development economist who in the early 1990s pushed for the integration of social impacts into economic policy. He was the first person to push for transforming the G8 to G20 at the leaders’ level. Dr. Bradford also helped create the Think20 (T20) engagement track for G20 Summits and is the Lead Co-Chair of the China-West Dialogue (CWD), which gathers leaders from China and the West to define an “alternative framework” to the current geopolitical status quo.
Nicolas J.A. Buchoud
Co-founder and President, Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development
Nicolas Buchoud is a member of the T20, served as co-chair of the T20 Task Force on infrastructure investment and financing in 2019 and 2020, and is currently a co–Lead Chair of the Japan T7 2023. He is a consultant to academic, civic and corporate social responsibility initiatives on urban and global transitions, a trusted and creative metropolitan entrepreneur and policymaker. He specializes in multilateral negotiations and the management of complex science to policy interface in the field of sustainable development.
Marc Fleurbaey
Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research (NRS)
Professor, Paris School of Economics
Marc Fleurbaey’s research has contributed to the theory of social choice and fair allocation, and includes applications to health policy, education, income taxation, climate mitigation and the construction of indicators of well-being and social welfare. He is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, and a member of the Steering Committee for the International Panel for Social Progress. Furthermore, Dr. Fleurbaey has co-chaired Think20 (T20) task forces under Germany’s 2017 G20 Presidency and Argentina’s 2018 G20 Presidency.
Christian Kastrop
Economist
Christian Kastrop was a State Secretary for Digital Society and Consumer Policy within the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. He is a Professor for Public Finance at the Free University Berlin and Fellow at the Hertie School, Berlin. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cologne University, where he also lectured and worked as a researcher at the Cologne Institute of Public Finance.
Colm Kelly
Global Leader - Corporate Responsibility, PwC
Colm is PwC’s Global Leader for Corporate Sustainability, and a member of the Global Markets Leadership Team His previous roles with PwC globally include Global Leader of the Tax and Legal Services business and Global Chief Operations Officer. Prior to this, Colm was the leader of the PwC Ireland Tax and Legal Services business for a number of years. Colm is a council member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a Fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative, and chair of the Foundation for Fiscal Studies.
Arun Maira
Chairman, HelpAge International
Arun Maira is a thought leader on social and economic development and transformational change. He brings an unusual combination of hands-on leadership experience in the private, public and social development sectors as well as in leadership consulting. He served as a Member of the Planning Commission of India and was Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group in India, among other positions. Currently, he is the Chair of HelpAge International, a non-profit that aims to support older people across the world.
Beatriz Nofal
Former Co-Chair of T20 Saudi Arabia 2020
TF3 on “Infrastructure Investment and its Financing”
Former Co-Chair of T20 2019 Japan TF 4
Beatriz Nofal was Argentina’s G20 Sherpa in 2017 and Special Representative for G20 Affairs, with the rank of Secretary of State, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. She fulfilled this responsibility during Germany’s G20 Presidency, until the Hamburg Summit. In this position she collaborated closely with Germany’s G20 Presidency. At the same time, she contributed to the formulation of the priorities for G20 Argentina 2018 and led the preparatory work.
Julia Pomares
Chief Advisor to the Governor, Government of the City of Buenos Aires
Julia Pomares holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Comparative Politics and in Research Methods from the same university. She is a specialist in public policy research and project monitoring and evaluation. Dr. Pomares has worked for numerous international organizations and think tanks, including the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Organization of American States (OAS), among others. Under Argentina’s 2018 G20 Presidency, Dr. Pomares served as co-chair of the Think20 (T20) engagement group. She is also a former Executive Director of CIPPEC.
Shuva Raha
Head of New Initiatives, Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW)
With 22 years of experience in public policy and business, Shuva Raha leads the CEEW’s strategic initiatives on energy-development-climate geopolitics – energy access, security and transition, industrial decarbonisation, and circular economies of resources. Raha manages CEEW’s advisory on India’s G20 Presidency and the UN Energy Compacts process with several Union Ministries
Margo Thomas
Founder and CEO, Women’s Economic Imperative
With a Doctoral Degree in Public Policy and Private Sector Development from the University of Manchester, Dr. Thomas’ areas of focus include: trade and competitiveness, business environment and regulatory reform, investment policy, and women’s economic empowerment. During her career spanning over two decades as a senior official at the World Bank Group, Dr. Thomas provided policy advice to over 50 national and sub-national governments. Dr Thomas served as Co-Chair of T20 Task Forces under Argentina’s 2018 G20 Presidency, Japan’s 2019 G20 Presidency, and Saudi Arabia’s 2020 G20 Presidency.
Paul Twomey
Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation
Co-Founder, Biosecurity Systems
Paul Twomey is an expert on internet governance, e-commerce, cyber security, biosecurity and robotics, who was one of the founding figures and CEO of ICANN and CEO of the Australian National Office for the Information Economy and the Federal government’s Special Adviser for the Information Economy and Technology. He has been Co-chair of the Digital Economy and Future of Work Task Force for the Think20 organ of the G20 over the last several years. Paul is an internet and cyber security consultant and co-founder of several enterprises.
Naoyuki Yoshino
Director, Financial Research Center of the Financial Services Agency, and Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Prof. Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, Director of the Financial Research Center at the Financial Services Agency (Government of Japan) and chairperson of the Japanese Government Bond Investors Meeting (Ministry of Finance). He was the Dean/CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo (2014-2020) and served as Lead Chair of T20 Japan in 2019, working on multilateralism and global infrastructure.