Our Contributors

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, former economist at the Luxembourg Central Bank, European Commission, and Barclays, is an associate of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

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

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.

Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, has been nominated to be the next President of the European Central Bank. She previously served as France’s finance minister from 2007-2011, and in 2009 was named by the Financial Times as the best finance minister in the eurozone.

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile (2000-2006) and UN Special Envoy for Climate Change (2008-2010), is President of the Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo and a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. He is currently Professor at Large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Anthony Lake is Executive Director of UNICEF.

Amar Lal, a former bonded child laborer, is a lawyer and human rights activist.

Deepak Lal is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kevin Laland is Professor of Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews, and the author of Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind.