Our Contributors

Anat R. Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is co-author (with Martin Hellwig) of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It – New and Expanded Edition (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Timothy Ash, an economist, is Senior Emerging Markets Sovereign Strategist at RBC BlueBay Asset Management and an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. 

Dolika Banda is Global Ambassador at GSG Impact and Chair of the Board at Standard Chartered Bank Zambia.

Ajay Banga is President of the World Bank Group.

Julie Beaufils is Secretary General of EuropeOn, the European Electrical Contractors Association.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, is the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).

Sheri Berman, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, is the author of The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Harvard University Press, 1998), The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Kelly Born, a former director of Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, is Director of the Democracy, Rights, and Governance initiative at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Michael Ehrenreich is a former editor at Berlingske and a former director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society.

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is President of Mauritania and Chairperson of the African Union.

Monica Herz, an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, is a senior fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations and a member of the Executive Council at the BRICS Policy Center.

Zaki Laïdi is a professor at Sciences Po.

Faith Mabera is a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue in Pretoria, South Africa.

Frederico Menino, a sociologist, is Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations.

Shannon K. O'Neil, Vice President of Studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter (Yale University Press, 2023).

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.

Janak Raj is a senior fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress.

Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, is the author, most recently, of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023).

Giovanni Tagliani is a researcher at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London, is Co-Chair of the Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery Project.