Our Contributors

The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) is an institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. Its goal is to support the free exchange of ideas and thus to help overcome dividing lines and mechanisms of exclusion within and between our societies. Institut for Human Sciences

Shamil Ibragimov is Executive Director of the Soros Foundation Kyrgyzstan.

Anwar Ibrahim is Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Malaysia.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad, is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues and the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee.

Mo Ibrahim is Chair and Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo and Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Dr. Ibrahim gained global attention after he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at a trial Amnesty International described as politically motivated to punish him for his human rights activism. His conviction was overturned in 2003.

Enrique V. Iglesias is a former president of the of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Michael Ignatieff, Professor of History and Rector Emeritus of Central European University in Vienna, is a former Canadian politician and author of On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) and Isaiah Berlin: A Life (Pushkin Press, 2023).

Agnes Igoye, a senior Aspen New Voices Fellow, is Uganda’s Deputy National Coordinator for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons and Head of the Ugandan Immigration Training Academy.

Bjørn Ihler, an Extremely Together Young Leader at the Kofi Annan Foundation, co-founder of the Khalifa Ihler Institute, and One Young World Ambassador, is an international counter extremism expert, technologist, and activist.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Bell Ihua, a social researcher and survey expert, is Executive Director of the Africa Polling Institute (API).

Sharon Ikeazor is Minister of State for the Environment of Nigeria.

Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington.

Hazel Ilango is an energy-finance analyst covering debt markets at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.