In 1981, I had been working in the US Treasury Department for more than five years on issues related to the roles of the IMF and World Bank.

In my 19 April 2022 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I suggested that the G20 global policy forum be replaced by a G15.

In a June 2018 blog post for Brookings, I wrote that “deinstitutionalization” is leading to lives that will be nasty, brutish, and short.

In April 2017, The Globalist blog published a short version of my Brooking paper on separating the World Bank from the IMF.

In this Brookings policy note ahead of the crucial London Summit, I stressed the importance of the Asian region in tackling global problems.

In a Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I proposed choosing a Chinese person as the next president of the Asian Development Bank.

In this Brookings blog post, I stressed the benefits of not putting forward another American to be next president of the World Bank.

In the Brookings op-ed, I summarized the arguments from a long paper for moving the World Bank headquarters out of Washington DC.

In this Brookings op-ed, I highlighted China’s support for strengthening the IMF in the effort to recover from the Global Financial Crisis.

In this last part of a series in The Globalist, I lay out the advantages of combining the G8 and G20 to make a better global forum.

This was my third contribution to a 4-part series published by The Globalist blog. I proposed replacing the G20 with a G15.

This Brookings report contains nine perspectives on global summitry. My perspective sketched out what Asian countries wanted.

In this second contribution to a 4-part series published by The Globalist blog, I contrasted the roles of Indonesia and China in the G20.

In the first of a 4-part series published by The Globalist blog, I reviewed the evolution of the G20 forum from a meeting in France in 1975.

In this Brookings op-ed, I focused on the role of the emerging market country leaders in this new, for them, global forum.

Seven scholars contributed to this Brookings report. My part was “Keep the IMF at the Center”.

In this Brookings op-ed, I examine good and bad features of this important innovation in global governance.

In a Brookings Policy Brief and a Working Paper, I made a radical argument for moving the World Bank out of Washington DC to Europe.

In this short Brookings Q and A, the first question I answered was “Why should Americans care about the ASEAN Community?”

In this Brookings op-ed, on the threshold of the 2008 presidential election campaign, I listed four IMF/World Bank issues worth debating.