As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, nearly 100 articles on climate change, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Toward the Consolidation of G20 Summits: From Crisis Committee to Global Steering Committee
Toward the Consolidation of G20 Summits: From Crisis Committee to Global Steering Committee, September 28-29 2010, Soeul
Simon moderated two sessions at the G20 Seoul International Symposium, hosted by the Korea Development Institute (KDI), the Brookings Institution and the Dong-A Ilbo. The Symposium was officially sponsored by the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, and the proceedings will be published as a monograph, which will be distributed prior to the 2010 G20 Summit.
This public forum provided a venue to share thoughts and ideas regarding the consolidation of the G20 Committee from a crisis committee to a global steering committee. Issues included strong, sustainable and balanced growth, financial reforms, global financial safety nets, a growth-oriented development agenda and institutional innovations to solidify the status of the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation.