Join Paola Subacchi and Piera Tortora for an in-depth discussion on how international policy cooperation can respond to pressing global challenges, including debt and climate. The episode also explores the Pact for Prosperity, People and the Planet – a global coalition established at the 2023 Summit for the New Global Financing Pact – and its potential to drive meaningful reforms of the international financial architecture.

Piera Tortora serves as Head of the Secretariat of the Paris Pact for People and the Planet (4P), a global alliance of 68 countries advocating for international financial reform. A veteran of the OECD (2011–2024), she previously founded the Sustainable Ocean for All Initiative and led work on development finance and sustainable tourism. Earlier, she conducted economic analysis for the UN-FAO and the UN-ECE. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and has taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Sant'Anna University of Pisa.

Paola Subacchi is Professor and Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance at Sciences Po, and Professor of Political Economy of Europe at the University of Bologna. She is also a partner at Essential Economics, a London-based consultancy that advises governments, international organisations, and private companies. From 2019 to 2024 she was at Queen Mary University of London, where she helped establish the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute. Previously, she directed the International Economics Research Department at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London.

Production Paola Subacchi

Coordination Nathalie Corvée

Musique Nils Bertinelli

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