In a key moment for the design of national and international policies that drive growth in the context of global economic crisis, the Club de Madrid and the Mexican Presidency of the G20, with the help of AeroMéxico and Acciona, organized a roundtable on April 30th 2012 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico to identify and discuss recommendations on this issue, which is of vital importance for the G20 agenda and a top priority for the Mexican presidency. The recommendations will be handed in by Dra. Lourdes Aranda, Mexican Sherpa to the G20, to President Felipe Calderón before the upcoming G20 Summit in Los Cabos in June , and will be delivered to the G20 Development Working Group´s.

Download the Club de Madrid recommendations to the G20 on the Green Growth Agenda

From Feb. 26-29, a Club de Madrid delegation led by Pres. José María Figueres of Costa Rica and Club de Madrid’s Vice-President and former President of Bolivia Jorge Fernando Quiroga, was in Port-au-Prince to discuss with public officials, entrepreneurs and members of the international community, the potential for investment in eco-tourism and mining in Haiti.

President Michel Martelly, in the framework of a plenary session on “Political consensus amongst Haitians. The political experience of the Club de Madrid at the service of Haiti’s future » committed before the main Haitian stakeholders to publish a pending Constitutional Reform, to name all members of the Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation), to provide for a functional Permanent Electoral Council and municipal and senatorial elections in 2012 hence unblocking the standstill between the Executive and Legislative powers that was hindering development.

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Speech of the Haitian President, S.E. Michel Martelly, at the end of the working session with the Club de Madrid (in French): (audio) (download pdf)

Speech of Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997-2002) and Member of the Club de Madrid (in French): (audio) (download pdf)

The Club de Madrid Member Jorge Quiroga, President of Bolivia (2001-2002) provided an integral vision of the important synergies between Agriculture, Climate Change and Green Economy in the Latin American region, during the Climate Change and Agriculture in Latin America Seminar that took place on 13 and 14 October in Brasilia.

Club de Madrid Member Jorge Quiroga participated at the IV Economic Forum held in Astana May 3-4 to highlight the importance of the reform of the International Financial Institutions and the role of the G20. The event gathered world- renowned academics, such as Robert Mundel and John Nash, both Nobel Prize laureates in Economics.

Just after the announcement of the final reults that declared Michael Martelly as the elected Predident for Haiti, a delegation of the Club de Madrid travelled to the country to express the organisation’s support to the normal continuity of the democratic process. The delegation, leaded by Presidents Lacalle (Uruguay) and Quiroga (Bolivia), along Club de Madrid’s General Secretary Carlos Westendorp, discussed with the new leaders of the country and the highest authorities in duty the constitutional reform and the regulation of international aid as the most inmediate challenges that the new powers will have to face.

Jorge Quiroga (President of Bolivia, 2001-2002) represented the Club of Madrid at the Global Urban Development Forum hosted by the International Economic Club of China in Beijing (5-7 January). The theme of this year’s forum was “New Energy, New Technology, Smart City and Sustainable Development”. President Quiroga centred his speech on adaptation and mitigation policies for cities fighting climate change, and presenting the Club of Madrid recommendations produced in this respect. As China is taking the lead in urban development this new millennium and has, in fact, become the world’s number one investor in clean energy and technology, this was a key opportunity that allowed us to  open a door for further work with Chinese authorities – key players in future negotiations in the international agenda.  

Jean Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti, and Jorge Fernando Quiroga,  President of Bolivia (2001-2002) and member of the Club de Madrid, publishes and op-ed on the Miami Herald about Haiti, the institutional reconstruction of the country and the national ownership of this process, and the paradigm of development.

Read the Miami Herald Op-Ed

The main annual event of the organization, held in Madrid on 12-13 November 2009, concluded with a call for more and better democracy that delivers.