Our Contributors

Rim Berahab is Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South.

Anne Bouverot is Special Envoy of the French President for the AI Action Summit.

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

Willem H. Buiter, a former chief economist at Citibank and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, is an independent economic adviser.

Tobias Bunde, Professor of International Security at the Hertie School in Berlin, is Director of Research and Policy at the Munich Security Conference.

Sophie Eisentraut is Head of Research and Publications at the Munich Security Conference.

Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Executive Director of the Future of Technology Institute, is a co-founder and former CEO of Carbon Re.

Charles Ferguson, a technology investor and policy analyst, directed the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.

Daniel M. Franks is Professor at the University of Queensland and Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Global Centre for Mineral Security.

Kate Hampton is CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.

Jean-Pierre Landau, a former deputy governor of the Bank of France, is a professor at Sciences Po.

Zaki Laïdi, a professor at Sciences Po, is a former special adviser to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy and Security.

Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author, most recently, of What Is Happening to Us? 121 Ideas to Make Sense of the 21st Century (Grupo Editorial, Penguin Random House, 2024).

Melissa Parke, a former Australian minister for international development, is Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

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.

Ebrahim Rahbari, Head of Rates Strategy and Head of Research, US at Absolute Strategy Research, is a former chief currency strategist, global head of foreign-exchange analysis, and head of global macroeconomics at Citigroup.

Elisabeth Reynolds, Professor of Practice at MIT, is a former Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the National Economic Council (2021-22).

Hannah Wanjie Ryder, a former diplomat, is CEO of Development Reimagined and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic International Studies Africa Program.

Karen Rønde, a former member of the Danish parliament, is CEO of the Danish Press Publications’ Collective Management Organization and a judge in the Danish Court of Impeachment.

Minouche Shafik, a former president of Columbia University and the London School of Economics, is a member of the House of Lords and the author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society (Princeton University Press, 2021).