ABSTRACT

This chapter surveys and comments on the following components of the G20 system: ministerial fora, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Heiligendamm/ L’Aquila Process; experts’ groups, working groups and task forces; and the leaders’ personal representatives (sherpas). It then gives a brief account of G20organized seminars, workshops and conferences. Leaders’ summits are reviewed in Chapter 2, and Chapter 9 discusses the documentation of the G20 at all levels: summits, ministerial fora, working groups and other sub-summit entities.