Our Contributors

Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

Samuel Charap, Distinguished Chair in Russia and Eurasia Policy and Senior Political Scientist at RAND, served at the State Department under President Barack Obama.

Elizabeth Corey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, is the author of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics (University of Missouri Press, 2006).

Kristie L. Ebi is Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington.

Leah Emanuel is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of national security and climate change.

Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, is the author of The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy (University of California Press, 2024).

James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin, is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. From 1993-97, he served as chief technical adviser for macroeconomic reform to China’s State Planning Commission. He is the co-author (with Jing Chen) of the forthcoming Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production (University of Chicago Press).

Sherri Goodman, Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, is a senior fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute and the author of Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security (Island Press, 2024).

Hakainde Hichilema is President of Zambia.

Kyungmee Kim, a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, is Senior Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Climate Change and Risk Program. 

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is a China studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mohamed Nasheed, a former president of the Maldives, is Founder and Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a former finance minister and foreign affairs minister of Nigeria, and a former board chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. 

Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam, is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water.

Majda Ruge is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe program at the European Council on Foreign Relations. 

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore, is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and Chair of the Group of Thirty.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Liberia, is Founder of Africa Frontline First and Co-Chair of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired US Army Colonel, served as special assistant to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93) and as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05).