Our Contributors

Francesco La Camera is Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Tony La Viña is Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations of Manila Observatory of the Philippines.

Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

Gordon LaForge is a senior policy analyst at New America and a lecturer at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.

Mart Laar is a former Estonian Prime Minister and now a member of the Estonian National Parliament.

David F. Labaree is Professor of Education at Stanford University, and the author of A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education.

Eric Labaye is Chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Marie Laberge works with the United Nations Development Programme to support national efforts to measure and monitor governance, peace, and security.

Marion Laboure, a lecturer at Harvard University, is a senior economist at Deutsche Bank Research and the author of Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Wolfram Lacher is a senior analyst covering North Africa at Control Risks, a global business risk consultancy.

Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.

Brian Ladd, author of Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age, was a visiting professor of urban studies at the University of Oregon in 2009.

Celso Lafer, Brazil's Foreign Minister in 1992 and 2001-2002 and Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade in 1999, is now Professor of Law at the University of São Paulo.

Gordon Lafer is a professor at the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon.

Brigid Laffan, an emeritus professor at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Center, is a co-chair of the High-Level Advisory Group of the Conference Observatory.