Experts Groups by Geo-Political Regions
Everybody’s Business is a strong advocate for the G20 process. One would then expect that experts would come principally from these countries. And in fact ,it is the case that three-quarters of the experts were working for organizations in G20 countries.
Of the remaining 25% , experts from non-G20 European countries comprised the largest group ( 11% of the total of experts). Experts from other non-G20 region accounted for less than 4% of the total. The geo-political distribution of experts based on the location of their organizational base is provided in Table 2:
Table 2: Participants in the Expert Groups by Geo-Political Groups
| Tier | New Geo-Political Groupings | Percentage of Participants |
| 1 | G20-based participants | 75% |
| 2 | non-G20 European-based participants | 11% |
| 3 |
non-G20 African-based participants; non-G20 South Asian–based participants; non-G20 Latin American-based participants, non-G20 East Asian-based participants |
1-4% |
| 4 | non-G20 Countries In Transition-based participants | 0% |
A breakdown by individual G20 countries of the G20-based experts is neither proportionally balanced among the 19 countries of the G20 countries 1 nor proportionate to national population of these countries. The G20 experts in the WEF panels are very highly concentrated in just two of the G20 countries – the US and the UK. Over 50% of the advisors were selected from organizations based in the US, and 17% were selected from UK-based institutions.
No other G20 country provided even 10% of the WEF’s policy experts. Four G20 countries had less than 2% of the advisors; eight G20 countries had less than 1% of participants based in institutions in their countries.
Only 13% of the experts came from institutions in the twelve ‘new’(non G8) members of the G20.
Table 3 below has the distribution of participants within the G20 group of countries:
| Tier | Constituency |
Percentage of G20 Participants |
| 1 | based in US | 54% |
| 2 | based in the UK | 17% |
| 3 |
based in China, based in France based in Germany, based in India, and based in Japan |
3-8% |
| 4 |
based in Brazil, based in Canada, based in Italy, based in Mexico, and based in South Africa |
1-2% |
| 5 |
based in Argentina, based in Australia, based in Austria, based in Indonesia, based in Russia, based in Saudi Arabia, based in South Korea, and based in Turkey |
Less than 1% |
A complete listing of the taskforce members is in Annex B.
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- 1. ^ The twentieth member of the G20 is the European Commission.
