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

  2. Vidya Vasu-Devan is Director of the Strategic Investment Fund at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  3. Ivan Vejvoda is Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

  4. Erion Veliaj is Mayor of Tirana.

  5. Stefaan G. Verhulst

    Stefaan G. Verhulst

    1 Commentary

    Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the GovLab at New York University.

  6. Maarten Verwey is Director-General of Economic and Financial Affairs for the European Commission.

  7. Francisco Vidal Luna

    Francisco Vidal Luna

    1 Commentary

    Francisco Vidal Luna, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of São Paulo, is co-author, most recently, of Feeding the World: Brazil’s Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy and Modern Brazil: A Social History.

  8. Klaas van Egmond is Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University.

  9. Viktor Vanberg

    Viktor Vanberg

    Writing for PS since 1997
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  10. Xavier Vives

    Xavier Vives

    Writing for PS since 2000
    18 Commentaries

    Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School, is the co-author (with Darrell Duffie, Thierry Foucault, and Laura Veldkamp) of the report Technology and Finance.

  11. Harold E. Varmus

    Harold E. Varmus

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From 1993 to 1999 he was Director of the US National Institutes of Health. A Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989).

  12. Andrés Velasco

    Andrés Velasco

    Writing for PS since 2001
    143 Commentaries

    Andrés Velasco, a former finance minister of Chile, is Project Director of the G30 Working Group on Latin America and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  13. Antje Vollmer

    Antje Vollmer

    Writing for PS since 2001
    1 Commentary

    Vice-President of the German Bundestag.

  14. Peter van Walsum

    Peter van Walsum

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Represented the Netherlands on the UN Security Council in 1999 and 2000. During that time he was chairman of the Iraq sanctions committee.

  15. Jürgen von Hagen

    Jürgen von Hagen

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Professor of Economics at ZEI, University of Bonn, and the Center for Economic Policy Research.

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    Antara Haldar on behavioral economics, development models, global governance, and more

    Antara Haldar advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
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    The New Normal for Central Banks

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks why the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank keep providing liquidity directly to banks.
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    The False Choice Between Palestinian and Jewish Liberation

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.

    rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
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    The Rage of the Outsiders

    Ian Buruma

    The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.

    shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
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    Protecting Gaza’s Children

    Nurul Izzah Anwar & Yolanda Augustin urge the international community to support the young Palestinians bearing the brunt of the war.
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    Loss and Damage as a Common Climate Cause

    Naveeda Khan explains why so many developing countries have not balked at a major oil producer hosting COP28.
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    Putin’s Killer Patriotism

    Nina L. Khrushcheva highlights the Kremlin’s growing dependence on violent criminals to fight its war in Ukraine.
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    The Technologies African Farmers Need

    Hippolyte Fofack urges policymakers to follow Ethiopia’s lead and invest in irrigation, mechanization, and fertilizers.
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    Hard Truths About Green Industrial Policy

    Ilias Alami, et al. warn that win-win narratives obscure the difficult trade-offs involved in state-led decarbonization projects.

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