Our Contributors

Cédric O is a former French secretary of state for the digital economy (2019-22).

Michael O’Boyle is Director of Electricity Policy at Energy Innovation.

John O’ Brennan is Director of European Studies and a lecturer in European Politics at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM).

Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, is now Chairman of Frontier Economics and a member of the UK House of Lords.

Megan O’Donnell leads the Center for Global Development’s COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative.

Stephen O’Driscoll is Head of Environment, Climate, and Social Policy at the European Investment Bank.

Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.

Jim O’Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of online technology learning platform O'Reilly Media and Visiting Professor of Practice at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is the author of many books, including WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).

Professor of Politics at MIT.

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Fintan O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, columnist at the Irish Times, and the author of Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.  

Nawaf Obaid is a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria (1976-79, 1999-2007), is a commissioner of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.