Our Contributors

Yu Yongding, a former president of the China Society of World Economics and director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, served on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China from 2004 to 2006. 

Mai Yamani is the author of Changed Identities: The Challenge of the New Generation in Saudi Arabia and Cradle of Islam: The Hijaz and the Quest for an Arabian Identity.

Yoon Young-kwan, a former minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Korea, is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Seoul National University.

Yao Yang is a professor at the China Center for Economic Research and Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University.

Kandeh K. Yumkella, a member of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, is Founder and CEO of the Energy Nexus Network. He is a former United Nations under-secretary-general and chair of UN-Energy and a former CEO and a special representative of the secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All.

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, a former chief economist of the Central Bank of Argentina, is Dean of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Faculty Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Policy, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s preeminent novelists. His latest book is Friendly Fire.

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of S&P Global, is the author of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Penguin, 2021) and the co-author of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (Free Press, 2002), which was made into a PBS/BBC series of which he was executive producer.

Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is the author, most recently, of The Great Economists. 

Michael Young is the opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper and the author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle.

Li Yong is Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko.

Miao Yanliang, a member of the China Finance 40 forum, is an adjunct professor at Peking University’s National School of Development. 

Victor Yushchenko is a former president of Ukraine (2005-10).

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the founder of Grameen Bank.