Our Contributors

Erik Berglöf is Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. 

Anwar Ibrahim is Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Malaysia.

Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H.W. Bush and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund, is the recipient of the Harvard Department of Economics’ Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists (Plume, 2021), The Price of Prosperity (Harper, 2016), and co-author of the musical Glory Ride.

Juliet B. Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and the author of Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter (Harper Business, June 2025).

Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spear-headed the movement against China’s one-child policy and is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest (China Development Press, 2013), which went from being banned in China to ranking first in China Publishing Today’s 100 Best Books of 2013 in China.

Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, President of JoinTheUnion.us, a pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defending American democracy and defeating authoritarian candidates, and host of The Home Front Podcast. He writes on Substack at The Home Front.

Cristina Caffarra, Co-Founder and Vice Chair of the Competition Research Policy Network at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, is an honorary professor at University College London.

Francesco La Camera is Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni human-rights activist, is the first woman from the Arab world to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sita Nataraj Slavov is Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Valery Perry is a senior associate at the Democratization Policy Council and the editor of Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21st-Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Chantal Smith is a senior researcher at Exponential View.

Romina Bandura is a senior fellow with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Inma Martínez-Zarzoso, a professor at the University of Göttingen, is Director of the Institute of International Economics at Universitat Jaume I and Vice-Chair of the International Network for Economic Research.

Palwasha Hassan, Senior Technical and Program Director at Mina’s List, is a former senior fellow at the Institute for Women, Peace, and Security at Georgetown University.

Florian Juergens-Grant is Global Social Protection Adviser at Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing.

Luca Pellerano is Senior Social Protection Specialist at the International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for the Arab States.

Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven is Managing Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Boris Ruf is Research Scientist Lead at AXA.

Nahom Ghebrihiwet is Economist at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.