Public Affairs

Financing Climate Change: Panel at the Global Solutions Summit

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This year, I have the honor of co-chairing the Think20 Task Force on “Purpose & Performance: Reassessing the Global Financial Order” during India’s presidency of the G20. As part of this process, I was recently invited with fellow Co-Chair Hans Peter Lankes from the London School of Economics to organize a panel at the Global Solutions Summit on “Making Global Finance Fit for the Climate and Development Challenge”.

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A changing global landscape: Three observations from the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi

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I recently attended the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, one of the world’s leading conferences on geopolitics and geoeconomics, organized by the Observer Research Foundation under its president Samir Saran. This year’s participants were of exceptionally high caliber, given that it coincided with the G20 Foreign Minister meeting, which took place in the same venue, New Delhi’s iconic Taj Palace hotel.

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Remembering 9/11

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Lower Manhattan with the World Trade Center

Fifteen years ago today, the World Trade Center’s twin towers collapsed in front of my eyes. I was in New York City working as an intern on Betsy Gotbaum‘s campaign, who was running for Public Advocate, the city’s second-highest elected office. Despite the traumatic events of that day, the three months were an unforgettable experience, …

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How should the world react to protests in Hong Kong?

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Causeway Bay, a busy shopping district in central Hong Kong last week: metal and wooden barricades surround tents; people sit on the floor discussing. Signposts in Chinese and English everywhere. It is “Occupy”, the movement led by students demanding more democracy from their administration and the government in Beijing. There are lots of police, but everything seems to be relaxed. Immediately next to the protest camp shoppers check out the latest smartphones and gold jewellery.

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