Our Contributors

Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, is the author, most recently, of The Postmodern Predicament (Yale University Press, 2024).

Neha Bansal, a former policy specialist at the United Nations and G20, is Founder of the think tank Asianism Retold – Development Pathways from the Global South.

Laurence Boone, a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is a former secretary of state for European affairs of France.

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

Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rachel Glennerster, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, served as Chief Economist of the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Nancy Isenberg, Emeritus Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Penguin Books).

Peter G. Kirchschläger, Professor of Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the University of Lucerne, is a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich’s AI Center.

Rakesh Mohan, a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the World Bank President Ajay Banga, President Emeritus of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, and a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development, and the International Monetary Fund.

Mohamed Nasheed, a former president of the Maldives, is Founder and Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum.

Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Justina Nixon-Saintil is Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at IBM.

Emmanuel Nyirinkindi is Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions at the International Finance Corporation.

José Antonio Ocampo, a former United Nations under-secretary-general and a former minister of finance and public credit of Colombia, is a professor at Columbia University, a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. He is the author of Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-author (with Luis Bértola) of The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Carlos Ominami is a former minister of economy of Chile.

Nicu Popescu, a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is a former minister of foreign affairs and European integration of Moldova.

Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

William L. Silber, a former professor of finance and economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is the author of The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business (William Morrow, 2021).