Our Contributors

Takatoshi Ito, a former Japanese deputy vice minister of finance, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a senior professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

Otmar Issing, former chief economist and member of the board of the European Central Bank, is President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. 

Wolfgang Ischinger, former German Ambassador to the United States, is Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Professor for Security Policy and Diplomatic Practice at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Finance Minister of Indonesia, is Chair of the Coalition of G20 Finance Ministers for Climate Action.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo and Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Dr. Ibrahim gained global attention after he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at a trial Amnesty International described as politically motivated to punish him for his human rights activism. His conviction was overturned in 2003.

Igor S. Ivanov, former Russian Foreign Minister and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2007, is President of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Vladislav Inozemtsev is Founder and Director of Moscow’s Centre for Post-Industrial Studies.

Mo Ibrahim is Chair and Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

Michael Ignatieff is Professor of History at Central European University and the author of On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021).

Arthur Ituassu is Professor of International Relations at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro.

Oleg Itskhoki is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves is President of Estonia.

Bjørn Ihler, an Extremely Together Young Leader at the Kofi Annan Foundation, co-founder of the Khalifa Ihler Institute, and One Young World Ambassador, is an international counter extremism expert, technologist, and activist.

Agnes Igoye, a senior Aspen New Voices Fellow, is Uganda’s Deputy National Coordinator for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons and Head of the Ugandan Immigration Training Academy.

Hindou Ibrahim, President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues and the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee.