Our Contributors

Wafa Abedin is a senior research assistant at the Brookings Institution.

Neha Bansal, a former policy specialist at the United Nations and G20, is Founder of the think tank Asianism Retold – Development Pathways from the Global South.

Xiye Bastida, a climate-justice activist from the Otomi-Toltec indigenous community in Central Mexico, is an organizer with Fridays For Future and Co-Founder of the Re-Earth Initiative.

Laurence Boone, a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is a former secretary of state for European affairs of France.

Gareth Evans was Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1988-96, President of the International Crisis Group from 2000-09, and Chancellor of Australian National University from 2010-19. He is the author of The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Brookings Institution Press, 2009).

Dylan W. Groves is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lafayette College.

Helena Kennedy, a member of the House of Lords, is Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.

Michael Krake is World Bank Group Executive Director for Germany.

Rakesh Mohan, a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the World Bank President Ajay Banga, President Emeritus of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, and a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development, and the International Monetary Fund.

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

Justina Nixon-Saintil is Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at IBM.

Emmanuel Nyirinkindi is Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions at the International Finance Corporation.

José Antonio Ocampo, a former United Nations under-secretary-general and a former minister of finance and public credit of Colombia, is a professor at Columbia University, a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. He is the author of Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-author (with Luis Bértola) of The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Carlos Ominami is a former minister of economy of Chile.

Nicu Popescu, a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, is a former minister of foreign affairs and European integration of Moldova.

Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Anya Schiffrin is Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications Specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Jessica Schnabel is Global Head of the International Finance Corporation’s Banking on Women business.

Caroline Smiltneks is an undergraduate student in economics at Cornell University.

Mu Sochua, a former Cambodian politician and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is President of the Khmer Movement for Democracy.