Mia Mottley

And a few years ago, I said, look, let me bring together a number of the people globally that I've been meeting, that have been agreeing with us, that fundamentally believe that things must change.

And some of them came from mainstream.

Within the financial institutions and the UN, some of them from outside, some of them from NGOs.

And we brought them all to Barbados a few years ago.

And we started the discussion to frame out how can we bring greater transparency and equity and opportunity to countries.

so that we can achieve the sustainable development goals.

And at the same time, we could save the planet.

We are on the front line of the climate crisis.

There's no two ways about it.

I mean, for six months of the year, you worry about a hurricane.

For the other few months of the year, Barbara, this is one of the 15 most water-scarce countries in the world.

Two years ago, we actually had 50% of our 30-year rainfall for the first few months of the year.

So it's real.

When we brought everybody together, we realized that, look, we need to make a major statement and to go after a set of reforms globally.

You heard me speak about the fact about the need for inclusion.

Why should the head of the IMF be a European and the head of the World Bank be an American?

That's a deal that was done by a few boys in a club.

decades ago.

But it doesn't apply to the world that you and I live in today.

It also doesn't necessarily mean that the best mind is doing the job.