Our Contributors

Manica Balasegaram is Executive Director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership.

Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

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.

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.

Eleanor Carter is Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

James Carter is a former deputy undersecretary of labor at the US Labor Department and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the US Treasury Department.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury is the co-author (with John Keane) of To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Teresa Ghilarducci is Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.

Carolyn J. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

Nancy Isenberg, Emeritus Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Penguin Books).

Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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

Li Shuo is Director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Alessio Terzi, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Sciences Po, is an economist at the European Commission and the author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Harun Warui is Project Lead of the Route to Food Initiative at the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Nairobi.