In March 2025, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) welcomes below four new members of FMG.   Sumanta Chaudhuri  https://fmg-geneva.org/sumanta-chaudhuri/ Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin https://fmg-geneva.org/ahmed-ihab-gamaleldin/ Trudi Hartzenberg...

On 12 February, Cecilia Malmström, FMG member, Nonresident Senior Fellow at PIIE and former  member of the European Commission and the European Parliament hosted a virtual session with Michael Froman, Former US Trade Representative and Bernd Lange, Committee for...

In October 2024, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) welcomes below five new members of FMG.   Willy Alfaro https://fmg-geneva.org/willy-alfaro/   Ignacio Garcia Bercero https://fmg-geneva.org/ignacio-garcia-bercero/   Ujal Singh Bhatia...

In July and August 2024, FMG held its annual Board meeting and General Assembly and has decided on the change of FMG Board, among other issues. According to the Statutes of FMG, the terms of office of 3 Board members (Alejandro Jara, Patrick Low and Stuart Harbinson)...

On July 23rd, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) held the Annual Board Meeting and on August 22th, FMG held the 2024 General Assembly. Both meetings were chaired by Alejandro Jara, Co-Chair of Board of FMG.   At the two meetings, FMG Board and FMG members have...

In July 2024, Mohammad Saeed, former Chief Trade Facilitation and Policy for Business at the International Trade Centre (ITC) Geneva joined FMG as a new member.   His bio has been updated accordingly on our website: https://fmg-geneva.org/mohammad-saeed/.

On May 23, Prof. Xiankun LU, CEO of Friends of Mutilateralism Group, together with some other members of FMG, had an informal meeting with Michele Ruta, Deputy Division Chief in the Strategy and Policy Review Department of IMF and Martin Sommer, Deputy Chief in the...

On 11 April 2024, Bernard Hoekman, FMG member and Director of Global Economics at the Global Governance Programme, was awarded an an Advanced Grant from European Research Council (ERC) for his project “Plurilateral Integration and Noneconomic Objectives”.   More...

On 14 March 2024, Victor DO PRADO, FMG member and former Director of the Council and TNC Division, WTO received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette conferred by Ambassador Oike Atsuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan to to the International...