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Middle and Rising Powers and New Coalitions: A Pivotal Force for Renewed Multilateralism?

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Add to Calendar 2025-10-15 13:00:00 2025-10-21 16:01:51 Middle and Rising Powers and New Coalitions: A Pivotal Force for Renewed Multilateralism? Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Hung Tran, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), will join a roundtable on Middle and Rising Powers and New Coalitions: A Pivotal Force for Renewed Multilateralism?, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the United Nations Foundation, and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Drawing on his expertise in development finance and global governance, he will explore how middle powers can leverage their economic and political capacities to build innovative coalitions, strengthen multilateral institutions, and tackle pressing global challenges.

His contributions will focus on identifying strategic pathways through which North-South middle power partnerships can reshape development cooperation and advance collective action in areas such as climate finance, debt restructuring, and digital governance.


 

Speakers
Hung Q. Tran
Senior Fellow
Hung Tran is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. His research interests include geopolitics and geoeconomics, in particular the US-China strategic rivalry and how the Global South can navigate that conflict. From 2007 to 2019, he was with the Institute of International Finance, rising to be its Executive Managing Director. In 2011-12, he helped coordinate the international private Greek government bond holders in negotiating with Greece, the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund for a €206 billion Greek sovereign debt restructuring, the largest debt restructuring in history. In 2001-07, he served as the Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capita ...