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  1. Bruce Babbitt

    Bruce Babbitt

    Writing for PS since 2015
    1 Commentary

    Bruce Babbitt, former US Secretary of the Interior and former Governor of Arizona, is a board member of the Amazon Conservation Association.

  2. Philippe Bacchetta

    Philippe Bacchetta

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Director of the Study Center Gerzensee (a foundation of the Swiss National Bank) and Professor of Economics at the University of Lausanne.

  3. Michelle Bachelet

    Michelle Bachelet

    Writing for PS since 2012
    3 Commentaries

    Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, is United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

  4. Urban Backstrom

    Writing for PS since 2009
    1 Commentary

    Urban Backstrom is Director General of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and a former State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance who was charged with managing the 1991-1993 Swedish banking crisis.

  5. Jean Baderschneider

    Jean Baderschneider

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Jean Baderschneider is a non-executive Director of Fortescue Metals Group.

  6. Shaida Badiee

    Shaida Badiee

    Writing for PS since 2015
    1 Commentary

    Shaida Badiee is Managing Director and co-founder of Open Data Watch.

  7. Robert Badinter

    Writing for PS since 2007
    1 Commentary

    Robert Badinter is a former President of France's Constitutional Court. As Minister of Justice he abolished the guillotine and the death penalty in France. He is now a member of the French Senate.

  8. Hoda Badran

    Hoda Badran

    Writing for PS since 2012
    1 Commentary

    Hoda Badran is President of the Egyptian Feminist Union.

  9. Bertrand Badré

    Bertrand Badré

    Writing for PS since 2014
    26 Commentaries

    Bertrand Badré, a former managing director of the World Bank, is CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital and the author of Can Finance Save the World? (Berrett-Koehler, 2018).

  10. Annalena Baerbock

    Annalena Baerbock

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Annalena Baerbock is Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany.

  11. Alberto Bagnai

    Alberto Bagnai

    Writing for PS since 2015
    1 Commentary

    Alberto Bagnai is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Gabriele d'Annunzio University, and a research associate at the Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée à la Mondialisation at the University of Rouen.

  12. Dany Bahar

    Dany Bahar

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 Commentary

    Dany Bahar is an associate professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs and a senior fellow at the Harvard Growth Lab.

  13. Amer Baig

    Amer Baig

    Writing for PS since 2019
    1 Commentary

    Amer Baig is a partner and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital.

  14. Martin Neil Baily

    Martin Neil Baily

    Writing for PS since 2013
    9 Commentaries

    Martin Neil Baily is Chair in Economic Policy Development and Senior Fellow and Director of the Business and Public Policy Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

  15. Frank Bainimarama

    Frank Bainimarama

    Writing for PS since 2019
    1 Commentary

    Frank Bainimarama is Prime Minister of Fiji.

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