Hi everyone and welcome. My name is Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by Alexander Mark Curis and Jeffrey Sachs,

the very famous American economist and public policy analyst who has advised many governments around the world,

including the Polish, Soviet Union, Yeltsin, Russia and yeah, many more.

And well, I'm very happy to have both of you today because we have a meeting next

month, a BRICS plus meeting in Kazan, Russia.

And the objective there is to chart its way forward, and the institution is really going

through huge changes. There's also

very high expectations and plenty of topics on the menu as Bricks appears to become the main

institution now to construct this new international economic architecture based on multipolarity.

And I assume they must discuss the long list of countries that want to join,

including NATO member Turkey.

They're advancing all these digital platforms to shift away towards independent payment

system and use more of national currencies.

We see Russia is very eager to set up commodity exchanges and

we have all these other economic initiatives for integration. And, well, there's some conflicting

views on this because this could be a very exciting time as we see many members of this BRICS plus

are adversarial countries and they come together to attempt to use economic connectivity to resolve political disputes.

And it seems like an opportunity to reorganize a world which is undergoing changes.

But I wanted to start off with you, Professor Sachs.

What do you expect from the BRICS meeting in Kazan and where is this organization is heading overall?

Well, first, great to be with both of you.

It's always a pleasure.

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