Coffee diplomacy at G20: Karnataka begins planning for mega track in 2023

These publicized meetings of FCBD and finance ministers and central bank governors are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the work being done in G-20

Just as the G20 meeting of finance and central bank deputies (FCBD) from the world’s largest economies wrapped up on the outskirts of Bengaluru, planning has begun for a mega track in 2023. Late February, the first meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, under India’s G20 presidency, will be held at the same venue—a sprawling resort some distance away from Bengaluru.  

The line-up will include the likes of Janet Yellen (US treasury secretary), Jerome Powell (Federal Reserve chairman), Christine Lagarde (European Central Bank president), Jeremy Hunt (UK chancellor) among others. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das