The T20 Troika came together during the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin. Similar to the G20, the Think 20 has a permanent structure made up of institutions from three countries: the one that hosted it the year before, the current president, and the one who will take over the next year. The trio guarantee the monitoring and continuation of the engagement group’s agenda in the long-term.

During the meeting on May 28, there were participants from the German representatives of the Troika, the German Development Institute (DIE) and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the current presidents of the T20 Argentina, the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) and CIPPEC, and the think tanks that will manage the engagement group from December 2018, the Asian Development Bank (ADBI), the Institute for International Monetary Affairs and the Japan Institute of International Affairs.

During the meeting, the participants talked about the T20 process, the Task Forces and their topics, and the policy briefs that they are developing. They also spoke about the engagement group’s events and how the transition and transfer between Argentina and Japan will be.

During the event, the following people participated:

– Pablo Ava, T20 Argentina Policy and Research co-chair

– Axel Berger, researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE)

– Dennis Görlich, head of the Global Challenges Center at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

– Matthias Helble, senior economist and co-chair of the research department at the Asian Development Bank (ADBI)

– Chul Ju Kim, deputy dean at the Asian Development Bank (ADBI)

– Kazunari Kudo, chief advisor to the president, Institute for International Monetary Affairs

– Jorge Mandelbaum, co-chair of the T20 Argentina

– Gustavo Martínez, T20 Argentina executive coordination secretariat

– Mercedes Méndez Ribas, T20 Argentina executive coordination secretariat

– Shu Nakagawa, director for research coordination, the Japan Institute of International Affairs

– Julia Pomares, T20 Argentina co-chair

– Martín Rapetti, T20 Argentina Policy and Research co-chair

– Imme Scholz, deputy director at the German Development Institute (DIE)

– Jakob Schwab, researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE)

-Kensuke Yanagida, research fellow,the Japan Institute of International Affairs

– Naoyuki Yoshino, dean of the the Asian Development Bank (ADBI) and co-chair of the “Climate change and infrastructure” Task Force.