Our Contributors

Abdulla Naseer is Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change, and Technology for the Maldives.

Irene Norstedt is Director of the People Directorate in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission.

Jennifer Nuzzo is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Director, National Defense Academy, Tokyo.

Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is author of The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Princeton University Press, 2012).

Boris Nemtsov was Russia's first deputy prime minister and a prominent opposition leader.

Vyacheslav Nikonov, one of Russia's leading political scientists, is President of the Politika Foundation, Moscow. He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov.

Professor of Sociology, NYU.

Director of studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and a member of the Académie Française.

M. Ishaq Nadiri, who participated in the talks that created Afghanistan's interim government, is Professor of Economics at NYU and an economic advisor to Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader.

Germany's Minister for Cultural Affairs and Media. Professor of Philosophy at Göttingen University.

The founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the global war on drugs and author of Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of US Criminal Law Enforcement.

Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Co-Chair of the Aspen Strategy Group, is a former dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, a former US assistant secretary of defense, and the author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Life in the American Century (Polity Press, 2024).

Professor of Rangeland Ecology at Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco.