Our Contributors

Milan Vaishnav is the director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics.

Mary Lou Valdez is Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization.

Vidya Vasu-Devan is Director of the Strategic Investment Fund at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Ivan Vejvoda is Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Erion Veliaj is Mayor of Tirana.

Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the GovLab at New York University.

Maarten Verwey is Director-General of Economic and Financial Affairs for the European Commission.

Francisco Vidal Luna, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of São Paulo, is co-author, most recently, of Feeding the World: Brazil’s Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy and Modern Brazil: A Social History.

Klaas van Egmond is Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University.

Professor of Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School, is the co-author (with Darrell Duffie, Thierry Foucault, and Laura Veldkamp) of the report Technology and Finance.

President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From 1993 to 1999 he was Director of the US National Institutes of Health. A Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989).

Andrés Velasco, a former presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile, is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of numerous books and papers on international economics and development, and has served on the faculty at Harvard, Columbia, and New York Universities. 

Vice-President of the German Bundestag.

Represented the Netherlands on the UN Security Council in 1999 and 2000. During that time he was chairman of the Iraq sanctions committee.