An earlier meeting of the group was chaired by Obama on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York last year. It was attended by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, the heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and government ministers from several countries.
L'anno scorso a New York, a margine dell’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite, si svolse un'altra riunione del gruppo, presieduta da Obama, a cui parteciparono l’allora Premier inglese Gordon Brown, i Presidenti della Banca Mondiale e del Fondo Monetario Internazionale e i capi di governo di diversi paesi.