Our Contributors

Carlos Alvarado-Quesada, a former president of Costa Rica (2018-22), is Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

M. Niaz Asadullah, Head of the Southeast Asia cluster of the Global Labor Organization, is a visiting professor of economics at the University of Reading and a professorial fellow at North South University in Bangladesh.

Martin Beraja is Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT.

Laura Carvalho, Director of Economic & Climate Prosperity at the Open Society Foundations, is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo.

Sarah Doyle is Head of Policy to the director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London.

Victoria Gierok is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economic History at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

Sonia Guajajara is Brazil’s Minister of Indigenous Peoples.

Enrique Krauze, a historian, essayist, and publisher, is Editor of the cultural magazine Letras Libres. Among his many books are Mexico: Biography of Power (2008) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2011).

Mordecai Kurz is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age (Columbia University Press, 2023).

Jean-Pierre Landau is Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po.

Maria Ressa, Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.

Xanthe Scharff, a non-resident senior fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, is a member of the Board of Advisers at PhilanthPro, Co-Founder of The Fuller Project, a global newsroom dedicated to journalism about women, and Founder and Board Chair Emerita of Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa.

Dennis Snower, President of the Global Solutions Initiative and president emeritus of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, is a visiting professor at University College London and a professorial research fellow at INET Oxford. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, an international research fellow at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and a research associate at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program.

Paola Subacchi is Professor of Political Economy and incoming Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance at Sciences Po.

Maha Taki is Director of the What Works Unit at the International Fund for Public Interest Media.

Liza Tobin, a former China director on the US National Security Council, is Senior Director for Economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project.

Kevin Watkins, a former CEO of Save the Children UK, is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics.

Jody Williams, Founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

David Y. Yang is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University.

Noam Yuchtman is Professor of Political Economy and a fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.