Our Contributors

Bruce Ackerman, Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, is the author, most recently, of The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2024).

Nicholas Agar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the author of How to Be Human in the Digital Economy (MIT Press, 2019). 

Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School in Berlin and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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

Nadia Calviño is President of the European Investment Bank.

Arzu Geybulla, Founder of Azerbaijan Internet Watch, is an Azerbaijani writer focusing on digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedom in Azerbaijan.

Nils Gilman, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, is Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine.

Jonathan Glennie, Director of the Global Cooperation Institute, is Co-Founder of Global Nation and the author of The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment (Routledge, 2020).

Glenda Gray is Board Chair of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership.

Patti Harris is CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Yasheng Huang, Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline (Yale University Press, 2023).

Brendan Kelly, a former director for China economics issues on the US National Security Council staff, is a non-resident fellow on Chinese Economy and Technology at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.

Raila Amolo Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya (2008-13), is a candidate for chair of the African Union Commission.

Mutesi Rusagara is State Minister of Finance in Charge of Resource Mobilization and Public Investments of Rwanda.

Azalina Othman Said, a minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), is President of the Assembly of Parties of the International Anti-Corruption Academy in 2024.

Liane Schalatek is Associate Director at the Washington, DC, office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Sophie Scherger is Policy Officer for Climate and Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s European office.

Sophie Sirtaine is CEO of CGAP.

Simone Tagliapietra, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, is a professor at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute.

Laurence Tubiana, a former French ambassador to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a professor at the École Normale Supérieure.