Our Contributors

Tom Achoki, a former Sloan fellow at MIT, is an adjunct faculty member at Baylor University and Co-Founder of the Africa Institute for Health Policy, a research and advisory agency based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ruben Andersson, Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department at the University of Oxford, is the co-author (with David Keen) of Wreckonomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Colin Coleman, a former partner at Goldman Sachs, is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics and Chair of Yapi Kredi Economic Research at Koç University, is Director of the Koç University-TUSIAD economic research forum.

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

Mirei Endara de Heras, a former environment minister of Panama, is Co-Founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Marea Verde, a Panama-based nonprofit addressing global plastic pollution through local action.

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Emma FitzGerald, a former CEO of Puma Energy, is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Energy Transition, an independent non-executive director at various companies supporting the energy transition, and a mentor to several cleantech firms, including VerdEx.

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

James Hodson is CEO of the AI for Good Foundation.

David Keen, Professor of Conflict Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is the co-author (with Ruben Andersson) of Wreckonomics: Why It’s Time to End the War on Everything (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former journalism professor at Princeton University and founder and former director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al-Quds University in Ramallah.

James Livingston, Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University, is the author of six books, including Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (Cornell University Press, 1986), and the forthcoming The Intellectual Earthquake: How Pragmatism Changed the World, 1898-2008 (University of Chicago Press).

Renee Luo is a research assistant at the Center for International Private Enterprise.

Adeel Malik is Associate Professor of Development Economics and Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies at the University of Oxford.

Daniela Schwarzer, a member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, is a former director of the German Council on Foreign Relations and former executive director for Europe and Central Asia at the Open Society Foundations. 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former president of Liberia, is Founder of Africa Frontline First and Co-Chair of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Yun Sun is a senior fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center.

Catherine Tai is Deputy Director for Asia at the Center for International Private Enterprise.

S. Alex Yang is Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School.