Our Contributors

Norine MacDonald is the founding President of The Senlis Council, a security and development think tank.

Professor of Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Vesna Manojlovic is a hacker, activist, and community builder at RIPE NCC, a regional internet registry. 

Gillian Marcelle is a managing member of Resilience Capital Ventures LLC and affiliated with MIT.

Lynn Margulis is Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts. She is best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges the central tenets of neo-Darwinism. She is also widely known for her contribution to the Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the Earth and its living beings function as a self-regulating system.

Jeremy Mark is a former senior communications adviser and speechwriter to the International Monetary Fund’s management team. 

Sini Matikainen is Policy Lead of the COP26 Private Finance Hub.

João Pedro Matos Fernandes is Portugal's Minister of the Environment.

Sabine Mauderer is a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Mairead McGuinness is Commissioner of Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union for the European Commission.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor of Education and Sociology at American University, is Director of Research at the Center for University Excellence, where she runs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab.

Michael Mina is a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Cristina Mittermeier is a photographer, biologist, and conservationist.

Mark W. Moffett is Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. This essay draws from his book The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall (Basic Books, 2019).

Reza Moghadam, Chief Economic Adviser at Morgan Stanley, is a former director of the International Monetary Fund’s European Department.