Our Contributors

Erik Berglöf is Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. 

Daniel Brieba is a fellow in political science and public policy at the London School of Economics.

Juan Caballero is a senior data scientist at World Data Lab, where he leads the Insights and Analytics team.

Hugo Drochon, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Nietzsche’s Great Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016).

Leah Emanuel is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of national security and climate change.

Wolfgang Fengler, a former lead economist at the World Bank, is CEO of World Data Lab.

Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spear-headed the movement against China’s one-child policy and is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest (China Development Press, 2013), which went from being banned in China to ranking first in China Publishing Today’s 100 Best Books of 2013 in China.

Kevin P. Gallagher is Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University and Director of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.

Sherri Goodman, Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, is a senior fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute and the author of Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security (Island Press, 2024).

Martín Guzmán is a former minister of economy of Argentina.

Christa Hasenkopf is Director of the Clean Air Program at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and a commissioner at Our Common Air.

Rana Hendy is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo.

Kyungmee Kim, a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, is Senior Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Climate Change and Risk Program. 

Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, is the author of Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir (PublicAffairs, 2024), Has China Won? (PublicAffairs, 2020), and the open-access book The Asian 21st Century, which has been downloaded more than 3.3 million times since its release in January 2022.

Adam Nelson is Senior Program Director for the Asia-Pacific at the National Democratic Institute.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a former finance minister and foreign affairs minister of Nigeria, and a former board chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. 

Kristen Sample is Director of the National Democratic Institute’s Democratic Governance team.

Lobna Shaheen is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the American University in Cairo.

Soumya Swaminathan, a former chief scientist of the World Health Organization, is Co-Chair of Our Common Air and Principal Adviser for the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program at India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Marilou Uy, former director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24), is a non-resident senior fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.