Our Contributors

Rabah Arezki, a director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Angela Bandemehr is International Environmental Protection Specialist focusing on Lead Pollution Capacity Building at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Josh Bivens is Chief Economist at the Economic Policy Institute.

Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H.W. Bush and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund, is the recipient of the Harvard Department of Economics’ Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists (Plume, 2021), The Price of Prosperity (Harper, 2016), and co-author of the musical Glory Ride.

Lilian Coral is Head of New America’s Open Technology Institute and Vice President of the Technology and Democracy Programs.

Maya Delaney, a former ambassador of youth climate action for The Bahamas, is the Octopus Desk Project Lead at the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance.

Yana Gevorgyan is Director of the Group on Earth Observations Secretariat.

Andreas Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt.

Agnes Kalibata, a former Minister of Agriculture of Rwanda, is President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.

Terry Lynn Karl is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and former director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.

Pascal Lamy, a former director-general of the World Trade Organization, is the vice chair of the Paris Peace Forum and co-chair of ATLAS.

Stuart P.M. Mackintosh is Executive Director of the Group of Thirty.

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, a former prime minister of Niger, is the African Union Special Envoy for Food Systems and co-chair of ATLAS.

Lenny Mendonca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is a former chief economic and business adviser to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

Rüya Perincek, a policy fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, is an adjunct senior fellow at the Global Centre for Mineral Security.

Michele Ruta is Deputy Division Chief of the Strategy and Policy Review Department at the International Monetary Fund.

Partha Sen is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.

Aminath Shauna, former minister of environment, climate change, and technology of the Maldives, is a board member of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance.

Heidi Shierholz is President of the Economic Policy Institute.

Ana Toni, National Secretary for Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil, is CEO of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30).