Labour Campaign for International Development (LCID)
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Timing
Monday 28th September: 16:00 - 17:00
Chair
Maria Finnerty, Exec Committee, LCID (Chair)
Speakers
Romilly Greenhill – CEO, Bond
Danny Sriskandarajah – CEO, New Economics Foundation (NEF)
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP
Joe Powell, MP
Topic
The UK's 2027 G20 Presidency: A Historic Opportunity to Fix the Financial System
This panel will set out Britain's role as a global financial superpower and what’s at stake as we approach the UK's 2027 G20 Presidency. Experts from government and civil society will make the case that, under Labour’s leadership, the G20 Presidency is a historic opportunity to build a less corrupt, fairer, and more functional global financial system that serves ordinary people, both at home and abroad. It will present a compelling and cost-free package of reforms – including to the structures that enable tax abuse, extraction, corruption, and unjust debt – to free up billions for development and climate action.
About Labour Campaign for International Development (LCID)
The Labour Campaign for International Development (LCID), founded in 2009, is a Socialist Society affiliated with the Labour Party, dedicated to advocating for a world without poverty & injustice.
Speaker bios
Maria Finnerty, Exec Committee, LCID (Chair)
Maria Finnerty is a political economist with over a decade of experience working at the highest levels of UK and international politics. Formerly as CAFOD’s Lead Economist and now as Bond’s G20 and Global Reforms Lead, she has played a leading role in coordinating the UK development sector’s collective advocacy on fixing the global financial system. She has a first-class master’s in development economics from the University of Cambridge and has previously worked as chief speechwriter to the Global CEO of Plan International and adviser to a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in UK Parliament.
Romilly Greenhill – CEO, Bond
Romilly Greenhill is Chief Executive of Bond, the UK network for organisations working in international development, a role she has held since November 2023. Previously, she was UK Director at the ONE Campaign, where she led work on global health, education and development finance. She has also held senior roles at the Overseas Development Institute and the UK Department for International Development, where she led work on aid transparency and initiated the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Earlier in her career, she worked in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance on the use of debt relief for health and education, and has worked with organisations including the New Economics Foundation and ActionAid.
Danny Sriskandarajah – CEO, New Economics Foundation (NEF)
Dr Danny Sriskandarajah is Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), a role he has held since January 2024. He previously served as Chief Executive of Oxfam GB, Secretary General of CIVICUS, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society and Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, as well as holding roles at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He holds a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney. Danny is also the author of Power to the People, published in 2024, which explores how people can use collective action to reshape society and democracy.
Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP
The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP is Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North and Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee. He has been an MP since 2004 and is a member of His Majesty’s Privy Council. He served in Gordon Brown’s government, including as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. An economic historian, Byrne has written more than 20 books, pamphlets and chapters on economic history, foreign policy and public service reform, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.
Joe Powell, MP
Joe Powell is the Labour Member of Parliament for Kensington and Bayswater, having been elected in July 2024. Before entering Parliament, he served for 11 years as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Open Government Partnership, an international organisation working to promote transparency, accountability and citizen participation in government. His work there focused on international efforts to strengthen open government and tackle corruption. Since becoming an MP, he has served on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and has spoken in Parliament on issues including international anti-corruption efforts, sanctions, housing, climate change and the legacy of the Grenfell Tower fire.