- Friday, May 02, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
PIYUSH Goyal, the Indian commerce and industry minister, has been picked as the country’s Sherpa for the G20 group that brings together the world’s leading economies.
The country’s ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Tuesday (7) announced that India will hold the bloc’s presidency starting December 1, 2022, and will convene the G20 leaders’ summit in 2023 for the first time. It also confirmed Goyal’s appointment as India’s Sherpa for the G20.
“Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Textiles, has been appointed as India’s Sherpa for the G20,” the MEA said. Goyal, a former Indian railways minister, replaced Suresh Prabhu, a former minister in the Narendra Modi government, as India’s G20 Sherpa.
“India will be part of the G20 Troika (preceding, current, and incoming G20 Presidencies) from December 1, 2021 till November 30, 2024,” the ministry added.
The G20 summit of 2021 is scheduled to take place next month under the presidency of Italy. The 2022 summit will be held in Indonesia.
Prime minister Modi has been leading India’s representation at the bloc summits since 2014.
The G20 brings together the world’s 19 leading economies plus the European Union, with its members accounting for over 80 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product, 75 per cent of global trade and 60 per cent of the global population, as per the Indian external affairs ministry.
The G20 members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
