Global Public Goods have a history and a geography that pre-dates the current international policy discussion and which may provide clues as to how to take the concept forward. Over the course of three linked workshops, the IHSS and MISS seek to raise a new debate as to what is missing in the language of Global Public Goods. There has been much discussion about what constitutes a “good” in GPGs, for example, but less on the matter of what constitutes the “public” and how we manage public needs at scale. This raises disciplinary questions about the way that we presently organise political society and its relationship to social and economic infrastructures. Discussants will include Prof Milindo Chakrabarti, Prof Raul Rodriguez, Dr Rituparna Patgiri, Juliano Fiori, Dr Deen Sharp, Prof Simon Reid-Henry, Dr Maribel Morey, Dr Grieve Chelsea, and Assistant Prof Yan Long.