Our Contributors

Anthony D’Agostino is a researcher at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Massimo D’Alema, who was Italy’s Prime Minister from 1998-2000, is President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and of the Fondazione Italianieuropei. He also chairs COPASIR, the Italian Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic.

Director of the Centre's Program in Applied Ethics and Biotechnology and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation.

Marek Dabrowski, a professor of economics, was First Deputy Minister of Finance under Poland’s first post-Communist government and is a former president of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw.

David Dadge is Director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, the global network for free media. http://www.freemedia.at

Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009), was the author of numerous acclaimed books and a European Commissioner from Germany, member of the British House of Lords, Director of the London School of Economics, and Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford.

Mansoor Dailami is lead author of Global Development Horizons, and Manager of the Emerging Global Trends Team of the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank.

Galip Dalay is a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and a former IPC-Mercator Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).

Maria Damanaki, former EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, is Global Managing Director for Oceans at The Nature Conservancy.

Brian Dames is CEO of Eskom Holdings.

One of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989, currently studying at Harvard University.

Antoine Danchin is Honorary Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Professor and Senior Scientific Adviser at the China National GeneBank.

Aliko Dangote, Founder and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group and Chairman of the Dangote Foundation, is the Co-Founder of the African Energy Leaders Group and a member of the Education Commission.

Mitch Daniels, a former director of the US Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, is President of Purdue University. He is Co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored Independent Task Force on Noncommunicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Jean-Pierre Danthine, a former vice chairman of the Swiss National Bank, is Professor and Co-Director of the College of Management at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Associate Member and President of the Paris School of Economics.