Our Contributors

Professor of Economics at Bocconi University.

Ethiopis Tafara is Vice President for Corporate Risk and Sustainability and General Counsel at the International Finance Corporation.

Simone Tagliapietra is a senior researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Italy and a research fellow at Bruegel.

Dato Sri Dr. Tahir is Chair of the Mayapada Group and Bank Mayapada.

Ryuji Takaki, a physicist, was President of Katachi no kagaku kai (Society for Science on Form) and Editor-in-chief of the journal Forma (http://www.scipress.org/journals/forma/index.html ).

Shumpei Takemori is Professor of Economics at Keio University in Tokyo.

Heizo Takenaka was Economy Minister (2001-05), Minister of Financial Reform (2002-05), and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (2005-06) in Japan under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He is currently Director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University in Tokyo.

Alon Tal is Chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University.

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the West Asia-North Africa Institute, is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. He served his brother, the late King Hussein of Jordan, during peace negotiations with Israel in the 1990s.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

Ernesto Talvi is a non-resident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Global-CERES Economic and Social Policy in the Latin America Initiative.

James Onnig Tamdjian, a geographer, is Professor at the Albert Sabin Institute in Ribeirao Preto and the Institute Clio, which trains young diplomats for Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Yael (Yuli)Tamir, a former Israeli minister of education and of immigration, is president of Shenkar College , an adjunct professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and the author of Liberal Nationalism and Why Nationalism.

Philosopher and a former leader of Hungary's Free Democrats.

Hao Tan is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia.