The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, the Center for American Progress, and the Stanley Foundation formed a study group in late 2011 to evaluate the role of the G-20 in the U.S.-China bilateral relationship and the influence of the relationship on the G-20 and to propose recommendations that could improve the efficacy of this important body. The Chinese and American experts listed below held two conferences over the course of 2012, in Santa Monica, in February and in Beijing in October. At the end of these meetings, participants in the group agreed to 20 recommendations.
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Participants in the G-20 Study Group
Tim Adams, Managing Director, The Lindsey Group and former Sherpa and Undersecretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush
Sabina Dewan, Director of Globalization and International Development, Center for American Progress
DU Yanjun, Director of the Department of International Exchanges, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Matthew Goodman, Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies and former Director for International Economics in the Obama White House
Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Adam Hersh, Economist, Center for American Progress
HUANG Ying, Associate Professor, the CICIR Institute of World Economic Studies
Bruce Jones, Senior Fellow and Director of the Managing Global Order (MGO) project at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University
LI Zheng, Assistant Professor, the CICIR Institute of American Studies
LIN Hongyu, Director of the Department of International Politics at the China University of International Relations
LIU Bo, Deputy Director of the Department of International Exchanges, CICIR
Stewart Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Keith Porter, Director of Policy and Outreach, the Stanley Foundation
QIAN Liwei, Associate Professor, the CICIR Institute of American Studies
David Shorr, Program Officer, the Stanley Foundation
Randy Schriver, Armitage International
WANG Wenfeng, Deputy Director of the CICIR Institute of American Studies
YUAN Peng, Assistant President, CICIR and Director of the CICIR Institute of American Studies
ZHAI Kun, Director of the CICIR Institute of World Political Studies
ZHANG Wenzong, Assistant Professor, the CICIR Institute of American Studies
ZHU Feng, Deputy Director, Center for International & Strategic Studies, Peking University
ZHU Liqun, Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University