Our Contributors

David Edgerton is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London and the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation. 

Associate Professor of Economics, Central European University; Research Associate, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Sebastián Edwards, Professor of International Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is the author, most recently, of The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen is a former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

Umberto Eco was a novelist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna.

Helen C. Epstein, Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard College, is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror and The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa. She has consulted for UNICEF, the World Bank, and Human Rights Watch, and has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Yorker Online, and other publications. Her recent writings can be found here.

Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Director of the Cancer Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California.

Chair of the Inter-University Seminar for Knowledge-based Economic Development in New York City, Associate Professor of Sociology at Purchase College and Director of the Science Policy Institute at the State University of New York.

Consultant on international affairs to the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) and a program affiliate of the Program on Non-Violent Sanctions and Cultural Survival (PONSACS) at Harvard University.

Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including In Defense of Public Debt (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Paul R. Epstein is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School.

Carl Elliott teaches at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and is a visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream.

Steven Everts is Research Fellow at the Center for European Reform, London.

Alexander Etkind, a former reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History at King’s College, Cambridge, is a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence.

Francesco d'Errico is a CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) researcher at the University of Bordeaux. His main research interests are Palaeolithic art, prehistoric technology and the evolution of human cognitive abilities.