FIRST

Introduction

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Foreword

Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PC

Chairman, FIRST Advisory Council

Trade and the global crisis

Professor Jim Rollo

Associate Fellow, International Economics Programme, Chatham House

Preserving social progress

Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

President, Federative Republic of Brazil

Open and free trade system

Stephen Harper

Prime Minister, Canada

Joint efforts to tide over difficulties

Hu Jintao

President, The People’s Republic of China

Building confidence together

José Manuel Barroso

President, European Commission

Capitalism and morality

Nicolas Sarkozy

President, The French Republic

Regulation and transparency

Angela Merkel

Chancellor, The Federal Republic of Germany

A new global architecture

Dr Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister, The Republic of India

A spirit of solidarity

HE Dr H Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

President, The Republic of Indonesia

Facing the challenges ahead

Muhammad Jusuf Kalla

Vice President, The Republic of Indonesia

Weathering global uncertainty

HE Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, The Republic of Indonesia

Optimistic for the future

Dr Boediono

Governor, Bank of Indonesia

Maintaining robust export growth

Dr Mari Elka Pangestu

Minister of Trade, The Republic of Indonesia

Tourism beyond Bali

Sapta Nirwandar

Director General of Marketing, Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Indonesia is in better shape

Muhammad Lutfi

Chairman, BKPM

Reform and responsibility

Felipe Calderón Hinojosa

President, The United Mexican States

Optimism and determination

King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Decisive action urgently needed

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Prime Minister, The Republic of Turkey

Concerted and unified action

Barack Obama

President, The United States of America