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.

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

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.

Kweilin Ellingrud is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in Minneapolis and a director of McKinsey Global Institute.

James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin, is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. From 1993-97, he served as chief technical adviser for macroeconomic reform to China’s State Planning Commission. He is the co-author (with Jing Chen) of Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

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.

Glenn Hubbard, Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University, is a former chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.

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.

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.

Kirsten Rulf is a partner and associate director at Boston Consulting Group.

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.