TheGroup of Thirty, often abbreviated toG30, is an international body offinanciers andacademics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sectors. Areas within the interest of the group include: theforeign exchange market, internationalcapital markets, internationalfinancial institutions,central banks and their supervision of financial services and markets, andmacroeconomic issues such as product and labor markets.

Group of Thirty

Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs, Inc.
Established	1978; 47 years ago (1978)
Chair	Vacant
Executive Director	Stuart P. M. Mackintosh
Staff	4
Budget	$448k (FY07)
Members	30
Address	1701 K Street, NW, Suite 950Washington, DC 20006 USA
Location	Washington, D.C.
Website	www.group30.org

The group is noted for its advocacy of changes in globalclearing andsettlement.

The Group of Thirty was founded in 1978 byGeoffrey Bell at the initiative of theRockefeller Foundation,^[1] which also provided initial funding for the body. Its first chairman wasJohannes Witteveen, the former managing director of theInternational Monetary Fund.Mark Carney was the recent Chair before stepping down in January 2025 to run for election in Canada.^[2] The current Chair of the Board of Trustees isTharman Shanmugaratnam.

TheBellagio Group,^[3] formed by Austrian economistFritz Machlup, was the immediate predecessor to the Group of Thirty.^[4] It first met in 1963, at the Rockefeller Foundation Center (Villa Serbelloni) in Bellagio,^[5] to investigate international currency problems, particularly thebalance of payments crisis which America faced throughout the early 1960s.

In June 2011, the group released a report that examines the 2008 financial crisis, including the causes, the responses and the future outlook for the United States and other markets.^[6]

In January 2018, the European OmbudsmanEmily O'Reilly requested that ECB PresidentMario Draghi resign from the group because his membership in the organization could be interpreted as undue influence.^[7]

The group consists of thirty members and includes the heads of major private banks and central banks, as well as members from academia and international institutions. Current members of the group include current and former heads of the central banks ofArgentina,Australia,Brazil,Canada,China,France,Germany,India,Israel,Italy,Japan,Mexico,Nigeria,Poland,Singapore,Spain,Switzerland, theUnited Kingdom, and theUnited States as well as two presidents of theFederal Reserve Bank of New York, two presidents of theEuropean Central Bank, a chairman of theBasel Committee on Banking Supervision, two chairmen of theBank for International Settlements, two chief economists of theInternational Monetary Fund, a chief economist of theWorld Bank, and the former president of Mexico. It holds two full meetings each year and also organises seminars, symposia, and study groups. It is based inWashington, D.C.