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  1. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Writing for PS since 2010
    108 Commentaries

    Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

  2. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    30 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  3. Pranab Bardhan

    Pranab Bardhan

    Writing for PS since 2010
    13 Commentaries

    Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  4. Sania Nishtar

    Sania Nishtar

    Writing for PS since 2013
    8 Commentaries

    Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

  5. Teresa Ghilarducci

    Teresa Ghilarducci

    Writing for PS since 2018
    7 Commentaries

    Teresa Ghilarducci is Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

  6. Agustín Carstens

    Agustín Carstens

    Writing for PS since 2008
    5 Commentaries

    Agustín Carstens, a former governor of the Bank of Mexico, is General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements.

  7. Maurice Obstfeld

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Writing for PS since 2017
    4 Commentaries

    Maurice Obstfeld, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

  8. Alison L. LaCroix

    Alison L. LaCroix

    Writing for PS since 2022
    4 Commentaries

    Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

  9. Qiyuan Xu

    Qiyuan Xu

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Qiyuan Xu is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

  10. Nandan Nilekani

    Nandan Nilekani

    Writing for PS since 2019
    2 Commentaries

    Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys, is Founding Chairman of UIDAI (Aadhaar).

  11. Rainer Kattel

    Rainer Kattel

    Writing for PS since 2021
    2 Commentaries

    Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

  12. Silke Bollmohr

    Silke Bollmohr

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

  13. Harun Warui

    Harun Warui

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Harun Warui is Project Lead of the Route to Food Initiative at the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Nairobi.

  14. Rachel Ruto

    Rachel Ruto

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Rachel Ruto is First Lady of Kenya.

  15. Judith Kirton-Darling

    Judith Kirton-Darling

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Judith Kirton-Darling is General Secretary of the European trade union IndustriAll.

  16. Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Carolyn J. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

  17. Jodie Ginsberg

    Jodie Ginsberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.

  18. Gaurav Dalmia

    Gaurav Dalmia

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Gaurav Dalmia is Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a leading Indian investment company.

  19. Eleanor Carter

    Eleanor Carter

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Eleanor Carter is Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

  20. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir is Minister of Culture and Business Affairs of Iceland.

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    Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China – and Shouldn’t Try

    Qiyuan Xu argues that high capital outflows – largely a result of US policy – have resulted in an undervalued renminbi.
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    The Dilemmas of the Dollar

    Barry Eichengreen

    The dollar's strength, particularly against major Asian currencies, has triggered a wave of skittishness in financial markets. Can anything be done to stem the greenback's rise, and even if something can be done, should it?

    asks whether anything can or should be done about the greenback's strength, especially against Asian currencies.
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    Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment

    Rachel Ruto outlines a gender-based strategy for improving energy access and reducing air pollution in Africa.
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    There Can Be No Business as Usual for European Industry

    Judith Kirton-Darling urges EU leaders to make a renewed Green Deal, backed by competitiveness-bolstering initiatives, a top priority.
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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek

    While the ongoing pro-Palestinian student protests have many superficial similarities to the student uprisings of the late 1960s, only the latter envisioned a new political movement to ameliorate the ills of their time. The current protesters' goals are far more modest, which makes them all the more tragic.

    sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.

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