However his hopes of making significant progress at today's summit have been dashed by more urgent issues on the agenda: the on-going deadlock over Greece's debt and the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
Civil society organisations are warning that the Financing for Development (FFD3) talks which began on Monday 13 July, may go into deadlock, or even collapse as negotiators reach an impasse over the creation of a new global tax body.
On the Digital Spy internet forum, a viewer, Captain Angel, wrote: "No should have gone to deadlock - let the public decide... ...... Another, jlay, wrote: "Louis and Danni bottled it".
Although it could go to deadlock.
But 19-year-old Clough went one-on-one with Al Habsi on 76 minutes and dinked a shot over the Latics goalkeeper to break the deadlock.
Democrats balked, and in what has become a ritual in Washington, Congress deadlocked, went on recess, and the status quo prevailed.
One team is going to break that deadlock and advance to the next round.
This deadlock cannot be allowed to go on".
"You either have a deadlock or a compromise plan, and I don't see a lot of compromise going on these days," said Gerald Hebert, a lawyer who represents Congressional Democrats.
Speaking out Monday in favor of going ahead with work on the Koodankulam nuclear reactors, Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha of Tamil Nadu put an end to the deadlock over the project.
Negotiations had been going on for weeks between President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, to try to resolve the deadlock after disputed elections on December 27th.
