Our Contributors

John O’ Brennan is Director of European Studies and a lecturer in European Politics at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM).

Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, is now Chairman of Frontier Economics and a member of the UK House of Lords.

Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, and the author of Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.

Jim O’Neill, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development.

Tim O’Reilly is Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Professor of Politics at MIT.

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke is Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.

Fintan O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University, columnist at the Irish Times, and the author of Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.  

Nawaf Obaid is a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria (1976-79, 1999-2007), is a commissioner of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

Seki Obata is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Business Administration and a former official in Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

Maurice Obstfeld is Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.

José Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia and United Nations under-secretary-general, is a professor at Columbia University, Chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. He is the author of Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-author (with Luis Bértola) of The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Akinyi Ochieng is an adviser to TheBoardroom Africa.