About Us

The Group of 20 is the premier forum for international economic development that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability. Its goals are to bring stability to financial markets and to promote economic cooperation. Membership consists of advanced and emerging economies from all regions of the globe. G20 leaders gather to stabilize the financial system, coordinate national economic policies to steer the world towards recovery, ensure that the international financial institutions are provided with the right underpinnings and adequate resources, and take new steps to increase access to food, fuel, and finance among the world’s poorest.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. It helps developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, providing advisory services to businesses and governments, and mobilizing capital in the international financial markets. In fiscal year 2011, amid economic uncertainty across the globe, IFC helped its clients create jobs, strengthen environmental performance, and contribute to their local communities—all while driving its investments to an all-time high of nearly $19 billion.

In 2010, IFC launched a dedicated Inclusive Business (“iBiz”) Models Group to create the tools, resources, and events that will help investment and advisory staff develop new ways to support IFC clients entering the base of the pyramid. The Group is actively documenting and sharing learnings to help other companies and development organizations to develop and scale innovative business models more quickly and more easily.

Dalberg Global Development Advisors, implementing the Challenge on behalf of IFC, is a strategy and policy advisory firm focused on developing countries and emerging markets. Its mission is to mobilize effective responses to the world’s most pressing issues, in particular those which affect people in developing countries. During the last 10 years, Dalberg has successfully completed over 550 engagements for more than 200 leading multilateral institutions, international agencies, foundations, NGOs, governments, and global corporations operating or investing in frontier and emerging markets, including extensive work with organizations and companies focused on the base of the pyramid.