Our Contributors

Sandeep Vaheesan is Legal Director at the Open Markets Institute.

Milan Vaishnav is the director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics.

Mary Lou Valdez is Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization.

Walter D. Valdivia, a former board member of the Society of Bolivian Economists, is Senior Policy Editor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Riccardo Valentini, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Tuscia, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Angela Valenzuela is a coordinator of Fridays for Future in Santiago.

Marta Valiñas is Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Patrick Vallance is President of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline.

Guillermo Valles is Director for Trade at UNCTAD and a former vice minister and ambassador to the WTO for Uruguay.

Manuel Valls is a former Prime Minister of France.

Shahin Vallée, a former economic advisor to the French Minister of Economy, is a senior economist at Soros Fund Management.

Marcel H. Van Herpen, Director of the Cicero Foundation, is the author of Putinism – The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia.

Richenda Van Leeuwen is Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs.

Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council, is President of the European Policy Center and a co-chair of the High-Level Advisory Group of the Conference Observatory.

Abi Vanak, Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, is a senior fellow at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (ATREE).