Our Contributors

Zeinab Bakhiet is a Sudanese-American attorney, mediator, and human rights activist.

Vinciane Beauchene is Managing Director and Partner at BCG, where she serves as Global Lead on Human x AI.

Rola Dashti is Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

Ulrike Decoene is Group Chief of Communications, Brand, and Sustainability at AXA.

Charles Ferguson, AI Editor at Project Syndicate, is a technology investor, policy analyst, and the director of multiple documentary films, including the Oscar-winning Inside Job. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the French-American Foundation.

Judith Friedlander, Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, is the author of A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Lili Fuhr is Director of the Fossil Economy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law.

Paolo Gentiloni, former European Commissioner for Economy, is Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Jonathan Hall, Managing Partner of the Sustainable Transformation Practice at Kantar, is a non-executive director at Water Unite and a member of the Executive Council for the Oxford Future of Marketing Initiative.

Stephanie Hankey, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Tactical Tech, is a visiting professor at FHP – University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the editor of the forthcoming Digital Influence and Climate Playbook (September 2025).

Hoe Ee Khor is a former chief economist at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office.

Carolyn Kissane is Associate Dean and Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs and Founding Director of NYU’s Energy, Climate, and Sustainability Lab.

Jae Young Lee is Group Head and Lead Economist at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office.

Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt, is a former minister of investment of Egypt (2004-10), former senior vice president of the World Bank Group, and former executive director of the International Monetary Fund. He is a visiting senior research scholar at Columbia Business School, a fellow at the World Academy of Art and Science, and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Robert Muggah, Co-Founder of the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Group, is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow and an adviser to the Global Risks Report.

Djoomart Otorbaev, a former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, is the author of Central Asia’s Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game (Routledge, 2023).

Landry Signé, Professor and Executive Director at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of Realizing Africa’s Potential: A Journey to Prosperity (Brookings Institution Press, 2025).

Ilona Szabó, Co-Founder and President of the Igarapé Institute, is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

Yan Wang, a former senior economist at the World Bank, is Senior Academic Researcher at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Brian Wong is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong.