{"podcast":{"title":"Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes","slug":"mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427","podcast_index_feed_id":162427,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65b12b49ff5af10016347961","website_url":"https://ecfr.eu","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/65b12b49ff5af10016347961/show-cover.jpg","author":"Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes","episode_count":644,"summary":"Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T22:17:44.278533+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427"},"episode":{"title":"Bretton Woods institutions in a new world order","slug":"bretton-woods-institutions-in-a-new-world-order","published_at":"2026-02-20T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/bretton-woods-institutions-in-a-new-world-order","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427","url":"https://shows.acast.com/ecfr/episodes/bretton-woods-institutions-in-a-new-world-order","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65b12b49ff5af10016347961/e/6996d5de4a6b6137bf6ef0eb/media.mp3","summary":"This week  Mark Leonard  is joined by  Mark Malloch-Brown . Mark is the former president of the Open Society Foundations, former head of the United Nations Development Programme, formerly UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s chief of staff, and former UN deputy secretary general. From 2007-2009 he joined the British government of prime minister Gordon Brown as minister responsible for Africa and Asia.   Together, Mark and Mark discuss how the role and impact of the Bretton Woods institutions, such as the World Bank and IMF, have changed. How can these institutions adapt to the rough-and-tumble world of 21st-century geopolitics—especially considering China’s increased support for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and projections that Asia will hold 50% of global GDP by 205?  Is Mark Carney right that there is a rupture in the old order? How did the Bretton Woods institutions underpin the old order? Are the World Bank and IMF problematic and outdated? Is it possible to reinvent these institutions for a new era? Or is it better to work through new, more representative institutions?  Bookshelf   1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation  by Andrew Ross Sokin   Facing Up to the Future: Navigating Disruption, Building Trust  by Patrick Achi, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Mark Malloch-Brown   News and reflections from Mark Malloch-Brown  by Mark Malloch-Brown  This episode was recorded on…","meta_description":"This week Mark Leonard is joined by Mark Malloch-Brown . Mark is the former president of the Open Society Foundations, former&…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1847,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/episodes/bretton-woods-institutions-in-a-new-world-order/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mark-leonard-s-world-in-30-minutes-162427/bretton-woods-institutions-in-a-new-world-order.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}