John J. Kirton is director of the G20 Research Group and the G7 Research Group, co-director of the BRICS Research Group, and co-director of the Global Health Diplomacy Program, all based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, where he is a professor of political science and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of China’s G20 Governance (2016) and G20 Governance for a Globalized World (2013), co-author of Global Governance on Climate Change: G7, G20 and UN Leadership (2015), and co-editor of Accountability for Effectiveness in Global Governance (2018). He is also co-editor of the recently published G20 Japan: The 2019 Osaka Summit and Health: A Political Choice. Follow him on Twitter @jjkirton.
