Our Contributors

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.

Adam Michnik, a leader of Solidarity in 1989 and a participant in the round table talks that ended communist rule in Poland, is Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza.

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Irena Grudzińska Gross is a professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a 2018 Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation. Her books include Miłosz and the Long Shadow of War (Pogranicze, 2020), and Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (Yale University Press, 2009).

Ilona Sologoub is Editor of VoxUkraine.

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a former vice president of Egypt, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, jointly with the IAEA.

Maurice Obstfeld, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Soňa Muzikárová, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, is a former economist at the European Central Bank, a former diplomat at the OECD, and a former senior adviser to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

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

Oleg Ustenko was an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from May 2019 until March 2024.

Brian Schmidt, a Nobel laureate, is Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University.

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

Sophie Scherger is Policy Officer for Climate and Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s European office.

Azalina Othman Said, a minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), is President of the Assembly of Parties of the International Anti-Corruption Academy in 2024.

Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel laureate in physics, is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author, most recently, of What Is Happening to Us? 121 Ideas to Make Sense of the 21st Century (Grupo Editorial, Penguin Random House, 2024).

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

Christy Hoffman is General Secretary of UNI Global Union.

Jonathan Glennie, Director of the Global Cooperation Institute, is Co-Founder of Global Nation and the author of The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment (Routledge, 2020).

Mary-Ann Etiebet is President and CEO of Vital Strategies.