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  1. Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman

    Writing for PS since 1998
    6 Commentaries

    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).

  2. Nicholas Agar

    Nicholas Agar

    Writing for PS since 2019
    10 Commentaries

    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). 

  3. Helmut K. Anheier

    Helmut K. Anheier

    Writing for PS since 2017
    39 Commentaries

    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.

  4. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Writing for PS since 2010
    115 Commentaries

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

  5. Nadia Calviño

    Nadia Calviño

    Writing for PS since 2024
    4 Commentaries

    Nadia Calviño is President of the European Investment Bank.

  6. Cori  Crider

    Cori Crider

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Cori Crider is Senior Fellow at Open Markets Institute and the Future of Tech Institute. She previously co-founded Foxglove, a tech-justice NGO.

  7. Arzu Geybulla

    Arzu Geybulla

    Writing for PS since 2022
    3 Commentaries

    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.

  8. Nils Gilman

    Nils Gilman

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

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

  9. Jonathan Glennie

    Jonathan Glennie

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    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).

  10. Glenda Gray

    Glenda Gray

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

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

  11. Patti Harris

    Patti Harris

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Patti Harris is CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

  12. Yasheng Huang

    Yasheng Huang

    Writing for PS since 2001
    13 Commentaries

    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).

  13. Brendan Kelly

    Brendan Kelly

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    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.

  14. Raila Amolo Odinga

    Raila Amolo Odinga

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

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

  15. Mutesi Rusagara

    Mutesi Rusagara

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

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

  16. Liane Schalatek

    Liane Schalatek

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

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

  17. Sophie Scherger

    Sophie Scherger

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

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

  18. Sophie Sirtaine

    Sophie Sirtaine

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Sophie Sirtaine is CEO of CGAP.

  19. Simone Tagliapietra

    Simone Tagliapietra

    Writing for PS since 2019
    6 Commentaries

    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.

  20. Laurence Tubiana

    Laurence Tubiana

    Writing for PS since 2012
    23 Commentaries

    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.

  1. scherger1ARMEND NIMANIAFP via Getty Images_farming ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images
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    Carbon Farming Won't Save the Planet

    Sophie Scherger warns that soil-storage offsets may serve as a smokescreen for polluting industries.
  2. bildt129_MaximShipenkovGettyImages_valdai_putin_fail Maxim Shipenkov/Getty Images

    Putin’s March of Folly

    Carl Bildt argues that Russia’s president has only his own poor decisions to blame for his country’s loss of status.
  3. hausmann117_TONY KARUMBAAFP via Getty Images_africawindfarm Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

    A Better Approach to Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann

    By harnessing the capabilities of developing countries, we can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities. This approach would not only advance crucial climate goals but also ensure that a larger share of the world’s population can enjoy the fruits of the clean-energy transition.

    shows how developing countries can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities.
  4. ghosh83_CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAAFP via Getty Images_trump cop CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images

    Trump’s Bad COP

    Jayati Ghosh says the Paris climate agreement’s future depends on how other countries respond to the new US administration.
  5. goldberg32_Spencer PlattGetty Images_USshipping Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Are Tariffs Worth It?

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg thinks the risks and costs for the US will far outweigh any potential political or geopolitical benefits.
  6. schalatek1_Resul RehimovAnadolu via Getty Images_cop29 Resul Rehimov/Anadolu via Getty Images
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    Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

    Liane Schalatek warns that rich countries are once again shirking their responsibility to provide adequate climate finance.
  7. mazzucato77_PABLOPORCIUNCULAGettyImages_G20_summit_prostest PABLO PORCIUNCULA/Getty Images

    How Global Public Investment Should Work

    Mariana Mazzucato & Jonathan Glennie

    Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together.

    propose a new model to unlock financing for action on climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues.
  8. palacio163_Dominika ZarzyckaSOPA ImagesLightRocket via Getty Images_cop29finance Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.
  9. ngilman1_Ivan LiemanAFP via Getty Images_rwandagorilla Ivan Lieman/AFP via Getty Images

    Interspecies Money Is Here

    Nils Gilman & Mutesi Rusagara look beyond the first ever payments to animals and see a new model for human-wildlife economic collaboration.

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