Dr. Colin Bradford, a leading voice on the “new dynamics of summitry,” returns for this third and final executive breakfast in our November G20 Seoul Summit series. Through a live call-in, Bradford will examine final preparations and innovations for the upcoming meeting of world leaders, as well as discuss Korea’s role as an innovation leader alongside other Asian partners, including India, Russia, and Singapore. The breakfast will provide an expanded opportunity for Q&A and discussion among business leaders and observers, and will highlight Korea as a regional hub for economic dialogue, investment, and innovation.

Dr. Colin Bradford is a Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Governance Innovation. A former chief economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bradford focuses on global economic governance, environmental governance, and international economics and development.

Dr. Bradford is a leading figure in mobilizing professional opinion and policy attention on the importance of the G20. In the mid-1990s, he articulated the need for a post-Cold War vision for development cooperation through the International Development Goals (IDGs); he later played a pivotal role in transforming the IDGs and the Millennium Declaration goals into a single vision known today as the Millennium Development Goals. He was an adviser to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Helsinki Process on the MDGs in the 2000s. Earlier, while at Yale, Dr. Bradford played a key role in the international debate on the East Asian Miracles, heightening focus on internal dynamism generating growth-led exports in Korea and other “newly industrializing countries.” Dr. Bradford has focused his professional life as an international economist on the relationship of developing countries to the world economy, serving ten years in the U.S. government, eight years in international institutions, and sixteen years in universities, teaching at Yale, American University, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins SAIS. He was a presidential appointee in the Clinton administration, where he was chief economist at USAID, a political appointee in the Carter administration, where he was head of the office of multilateral development banks in the U.S. Treasury, and a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles (D-Florida). He held senior economic policy positions in the OECD in Paris, the World Bank and the Inter-American Committee for the Alliance for Progress. He holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.