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Chris Patten

Writing for PS since 2000
173 Commentaries

Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former EU commissioner for external affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the author of The Hong Kong Diaries (Allen Lane, 2022).
Ana Palacio

Writing for PS since 2011
168 Commentaries

Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain and former senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group, is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University.
Jean Pisani-Ferry

Writing for PS since 2010
151 Commentaries

Jean Pisani-Ferry, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel and a senior non-resident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is a professor at Sciences Po and the co-author (with George Papaconstantinou) of New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries (Columbia University Press, 2025).
Minxin Pei

Writing for PS since 2006
101 Commentaries

Minxin Pei, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, is the author, most recently, of The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China (Harvard University Press, 2024).
Katharina Pistor

Writing for PS since 2000
40 Commentaries

Katharina Pistor, Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Eric Posner

Writing for PS since 2019
37 Commentaries

Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Edmund S. Phelps

Writing for PS since 1997
37 Commentaries

Edmund S. Phelps, the 2006 Nobel laureate in economics and Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, is author of Mass Flourishing and co-author of Dynamism.
Eswar Prasad

Writing for PS since 2006
28 Commentaries

Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics in the Dyson School at Cornell University, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Volker Perthes

Writing for PS since 2004
25 Commentaries

Volker Perthes is Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sudan.
Raj Persaud

Writing for PS since 2017
19 Commentaries

Raj Persaud is a psychiatrist and author of The Mental Vaccine for COVID-19 (Amberley Publishing, 2021).
Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Writing for PS since 2005
16 Commentaries

Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science, is a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies.
Yannos Papantoniou

Writing for PS since 2011
15 Commentaries

Yannos Papantoniou was Greece’s Economy and Finance Minister from 1994 to 2001. He is currently President of the Center for Progressive Policy Research, an independent think-tank.
Andrei Piontkovsky

Writing for PS since 2006
13 Commentaries

Andrei Piontkovsky is a Russian political scientist and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.
Jiří Pehe

Writing for PS since 2001
11 Commentaries

Jiří Pehe, once Chief Political Advisor to former Czech President Václav Havel, is a political analyst and Director of New York University in Prague.
Thomas I. Palley

Writing for PS since 2007
11 Commentaries

Dr. Thomas I. Palley is an economist living in Washington DC.