diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index ec9887905..3eff059d1 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1719,6 +1719,19 @@ class Command extends EventEmitter {
     return this._optionValues;
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Return an object containing global options as key-value pairs, from parent command(s).
+   *
+   * @return {Object}
+   */
+  globalOpts() {
+    const result = {};
+    for (let parentCmd = this.parent; parentCmd; parentCmd = parentCmd.parent) {
+      Object.assign(result, parentCmd.opts());
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Internal bottleneck for handling of parsing errors.
    *
diff --git a/typings/index.d.ts b/typings/index.d.ts
index 6fe954083..6ec368878 100644
--- a/typings/index.d.ts
+++ b/typings/index.d.ts
@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ declare namespace commander {
      */
     opts(): OptionValues;
 
+    /**
+     * Return an object containing global options as key-value pairs, from parent command(s).
+     */
+    globalOpts(): OptionValues;
+
     /**
      * Set the description.
      *
diff --git a/typings/index.test-d.ts b/typings/index.test-d.ts
index 061cf4bb6..e68ac0da6 100644
--- a/typings/index.test-d.ts
+++ b/typings/index.test-d.ts
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ expectType<commander.OptionValues>(opts);
 expectType(opts.foo);
 expectType(opts['bar']);
 
+// globalOpts
+const globalOpts = program.globalOpts();
+expectType<commander.OptionValues>(globalOpts);
+expectType(globalOpts.foo);
+expectType(globalOpts['bar']);
+
 // description
 expectType<commander.Command>(program.description('my description'));
 expectType<string>(program.description());