Our Contributors

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. A specialist on German economic history and on globalization, he is a co-author of The Euro and The Battle of Ideas, and the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, Making the European Monetary Union, The War of Words, and, most recently, Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2023).

Simon Johnson, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Faculty Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work initiative, and Co-Chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. He is a co-author (with Daron Acemoglu) of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023). 

Zhang Jun, Dean of the School of Economics at Fudan University, is Director of the China Center for Economic Studies, a Shanghai-based think tank.

Lee Jong-Wha, Professor of Economics at Korea University, is a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank and a former senior adviser for international economic affairs to the president of South Korea.

Keyu Jin, Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and the author of The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism (Viking, 2023).

William H. Janeway is a distinguished affiliated professor in economics at the University of Cambridge and author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Ma Jian is the author of the novels Beijing Coma, The Noodle-Maker, and The Dark Road. He is currently a visiting fellow at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.

Josef Joffe, a member of the editorial council of Die Zeit, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and teaches international politics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Arne Jernelov, a former director of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, is a UN expert on environmental catastrophes.

Wenran Jiang, a former Japan Foundation Fellow, is a professor of political science at the University of Alberta and a senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Joseph Jimenez is CEO of Novartis.

Edward Jung, former Chief Architect at Microsoft, is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Intellectual Ventures.

Yu Jie is a senior research fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Program at Chatham House.

Ma Jun, President of the Beijing-based Institute of Finance and Sustainability and Chairman of the Green Finance Committee at the China Society for Finance and Banking, is Chair of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and the Capacity-Building Alliance of Sustainable Investment, and a former co-chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group.

Calestous Juma was Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies.