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Located in Waterloo, Ontario, — the nucleus for Canadian innovation and technology — CIGI continues to strive to be the world’s leading digital governance think tank. Thank you to those who have worked closely with us over the years, and here’s to the next twenty!
Learn more about the history of CIGI and our 20th anniversary celebrations at cigionline.org/about/20
In Order of Appearance
Hon. Marty Deacon, Senator, Senate of Canada
David Vigneault, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Mai Mavinkurve, CIGI Senior Fellow
Hon. Bardish Chagger , Member of Parliament for Waterloo
Rt. Hon. David Johnston, Former Governor General of Canada
Hector Torres, CIGI Senior Fellow
Maureen O’Neil, Member, CIGI Board of Directors
Tom Bernes, Former CIGI Executive Director
Laura Mae Lindo, Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener Centre
Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Bessma Momani, CIGI Senior Fellow
Diana Tussie, Director, International Relations, FLASCO, Argentina
Giuseppina D’Agostino, CIGI Senior Fellow
Dave Jaworsky, Mayor, City of Waterloo
Located in Waterloo, Ontario, — the nucleus for Canadian innovation and technology — CIGI continues to strive to be the world’s leading digital governance think tank. Thank you to those who have worked closely with us over the years, and here’s to the next twenty!
Learn more about the history of CIGI and our 20th anniversary celebrations at cigionline.org/about/20
In Order of Appearance
Hon. Marty Deacon, Senator, Senate of Canada
David Vigneault, Director, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Mai Mavinkurve, CIGI Senior Fellow
Hon. Bardish Chagger , Member of Parliament for Waterloo
Rt. Hon. David Johnston, Former Governor General of Canada
Hector Torres, CIGI Senior Fellow
Maureen O’Neil, Member, CIGI Board of Directors
Tom Bernes, Former CIGI Executive Director
Laura Mae Lindo, Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener Centre
Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Bessma Momani, CIGI Senior Fellow
Diana Tussie, Director, International Relations, FLASCO, Argentina
Giuseppina D’Agostino, CIGI Senior Fellow
Dave Jaworsky, Mayor, City of Waterloo




![T7 2025: The World in 2025 — Building International Cooperation
Panel 2: The World in 2025 — Building International Cooperation
“Global collaboration greatly relies on the major building block that is regional collaboration, and collaboration between initiatives with shared interests.”
The second Think7 panel of the 2025 summit spoke on the state of international cooperation today and the future of global relations.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: Aaron Shull, Managing Director and General Counsel, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
02:29 Tetsushi Sonobe, Former Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
06:30 Bambang Brodjonegoro, Former Finance Minister, Indonesia and Incoming Dean, ADBI
10:50 Luciana Mendes Santos Servo, Civil Servant, Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)
14:53 Esther Brimmer, James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
20:39 Christian Kastrop, CEO and Partner, Global Solutions Initiative (GSI)
25:46 Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Chief Executive, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
33:05 Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
42:20 Antonio Villafranca, Vice President for Research, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI)
48:12 Ettore Greco, Executive Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
52:54 Marc Hecker, Deputy Director, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) Marc Hecker is deputy director of Ifri and editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal
58:47 Question: Implications for Big Tech and their corporate valuations if the WTO rulebook is torn up — wouldn’t that hurt dominant US companies?
1:10:28 Question: What potential do [the panelists] see for leadership on the question of reforming and “saving” the rules-based order from governments in the global South?
1:23:42 Question: As state actors face systemic crises, can the UN work with scientific and professional communities as it did with UN convention on the Law of the Sea to advance practical global architecture for digital finance and data cooperation that can enable progress toward the SDGs even if formal treaties lag?
1:32:03 Question: With younger individuals being placed in positions of influence and youth negotiators in international security discussions often facing skepticism, what critical perspectives or tools are we [young people in positions of influence] in need of and where are we being overlooked? How can we strengthen our role in shaping security policies to ensure we are not just symbolic participants?
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