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  1. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    40 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  2. Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown

    Writing for PS since 2010
    118 Commentaries

    Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

  3. Zaki Laïdi

    Zaki Laïdi

    Writing for PS since 2012
    36 Commentaries

    Zaki Laïdi, a professor at Sciences Po, is a former special adviser to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy and Security.

  4. Tobias Bunde

    Tobias Bunde

    Writing for PS since 2014
    6 Commentaries

    Tobias Bunde, Professor of International Security at the Hertie School in Berlin, is Director of Research and Policy at the Munich Security Conference.

  5. Minouche Shafik

    Minouche Shafik

    Writing for PS since 2017
    4 Commentaries

    Minouche Shafik, a former president of Columbia University and the London School of Economics, is a member of the House of Lords and the author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society (Princeton University Press, 2021).

  6. Hannah Wanjie Ryder

    Hannah Wanjie Ryder

    Writing for PS since 2017
    5 Commentaries

    Hannah Wanjie Ryder, a former diplomat, is CEO of Development Reimagined and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic International Studies Africa Program.

  7. Willem H. Buiter

    Willem H. Buiter

    Writing for PS since 2018
    56 Commentaries

    Willem H. Buiter, a former chief economist at Citibank and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, is an independent economic adviser.

  8. Jean-Pierre Landau

    Jean-Pierre Landau

    Writing for PS since 2021
    5 Commentaries

    Jean-Pierre Landau, a former deputy governor of the Bank of France, is a professor at Sciences Po.

  9. Sophie Eisentraut

    Sophie Eisentraut

    Writing for PS since 2023
    3 Commentaries

    Sophie Eisentraut is Head of Research and Publications at the Munich Security Conference.

  10. Tommaso Valletti

    Tommaso Valletti

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics at Imperial College London, is Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a former chief competition economist at the European Commission.

  11. Melissa Parke

    Melissa Parke

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Melissa Parke, a former Australian minister for international development, is Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

  12. Kate Hampton

    Kate Hampton

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Kate Hampton is CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.

  13. Alberto Alemanno

    Alberto Alemanno

    Writing for PS since 2024
    2 Commentaries

    Alberto Alemanno, Professor of EU Law at HEC Paris, is Democracy Fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

  14. Charles Ferguson

    Charles Ferguson

    Writing for PS since 2024
    6 Commentaries

    Charles Ferguson, a technology investor and policy analyst, directed the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.

  15. Rüya Perincek

    Rüya Perincek

    Writing for PS since 2025
    2 Commentaries

    Rüya Perincek, a policy fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, is an adjunct senior fellow at the Global Centre for Mineral Security.

  16. Rim Berahab

    Rim Berahab

    Writing for PS since 2025
    1 Commentary

    Rim Berahab is Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South.

  17. Elisabeth Reynolds

    Elisabeth Reynolds

    Writing for PS since 2025
    1 Commentary

    Elisabeth Reynolds, Professor of Practice at MIT, is a former Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the National Economic Council (2021-22).

  18. Karen Rønde

    Karen Rønde

    Writing for PS since 2025
    1 Commentary

    Karen Rønde, a former member of the Danish parliament, is CEO of the Danish Press Publications’ Collective Management Organization and a judge in the Danish Court of Impeachment.

  19. Anne Bouverot

    Anne Bouverot

    Writing for PS since 2025
    1 Commentary

    Anne Bouverot is Special Envoy of the French President for the AI Action Summit.

  20. Desmond Lachman

    Desmond Lachman

    Writing for PS since 2025
    1 Commentary

    Desmond Lachman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and a former chief emerging-market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.

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    Trump’s Looming Deficit Disaster

    Desmond Lachman explains why the US president’s trade tariffs and planned tax cuts are at odds with basic economic realities.
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    Governing AI for the Public Interest

    Mariana Mazzucato & Tommaso Valletti explain why the UK government’s recently released AI “action plan” misses the mark.
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    Putting the Trump-Modi Bromance to the Test

    Brahma Chellaney hopes that the US and Indian leaders take concrete steps to reset and deepen the bilateral relationship.
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    The Dark Side of EU Deregulation

    Alberto Alemanno warns that the bloc’s efforts to reduce bureaucratic red tape will do more harm than good.
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    Daniel Gros on DeepSeek, Germany's malaise, EU competitiveness, and more

    Daniel Gros hopes that a Chinese startup's apparent AI breakthrough will provide a much-needed boost to European competitiveness, advises the EU on how to deal with Donald Trump, urges Europe to improve conditions for bottom-up innovation, and more.
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    Trump Will Not Kill the Global Energy Transition

    Ian Bremmer

    Despite Donald Trump's promise to boost fossil-fuel production, the economic and technological forces driving the clean-energy revolution cannot be stopped. The global transition will power forward, even if America has abandoned climate leadership, and even if the road ahead includes a few more bumps.

    assuages fears that the global energy transition will be thrown into reverse by the new US administration.
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    A Reformed WHO Should Make Its Case to America

    Gordon Brown wants to reassure the Trump administration that a revamped organization could serve US and global interests.
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    The Age of Multipolarization

    Tobias Bunde & Sophie Eisentraut think a better future depends on whether a world with more poles can find ways to mitigate dangerous divisions.
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    Will US Export Restrictions Work?

    Barry Eichengreen

    Perhaps US efforts to cut off China’s access to advanced semiconductors will be more successful than analogous restrictions on tech exports to France in the 1960s. But we now have at least one data point – DeepSeek – that suggests otherwise.

    questions the effectiveness of efforts to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors.

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