She Writes

Renata Narita is Associate Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).

Tara Pincock is Policy Counsel at the Open Markets Institute, a Washington-based antimonopoly research and advocacy organization. She previously spent over a decade working as a state antitrust enforcer.

Sonia Guajajara is Brazil’s first Minister of Indigenous Peoples. In her earlier role as executive coordinator of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, she was a leader in the fight against then-President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to destroy indigenous lands and the Amazon rain forest.

Natalia Kanem is Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. She previously served as UNFPA’s Acting Executive Director, Deputy Executive Director (Programme), and Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania. She is the founding president of ELMA Philanthropies Services.

Binaifer Nowrojee is President of the Open Society Foundations, where she previously served as Vice President of Programs on the Executive Leadership Team, East Africa Foundation Director, Regional Director for the Asia-Pacific, and Vice President for Organizational Transformation.

Shannon K. O’Neil is the vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a Fulbright scholar and a Justice, Welfare, and Economics fellow at Harvard University, and has taught Latin American politics at Columbia University.

Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely. She then became CEO of Index on Censorship, a group dedicated to defending freedom of expression, and, later, of Internews Europe, a media development non-profit.

Rachel Ruto is First Lady of Kenya. She is the founder and patron of Mama Doing Good, which aims to catalyze socio-economic transformation in Kenyan communities. Ruto also founded the Joyful Women Organization, an initiative to empower rural women financially.

Anat R. Admati is George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she is also Faculty Director of the Corporations and Society Initiative. Admati is a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Mu Sochua is President of the recently launched Khmer Movement for Democracy. She launched Khemara, Cambodia’s first NGO devoted to women’s rights, became an adviser to the government, eventually won a seat in parliament, and was appointed minister of Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs.

Rudo Kayombo is Regional Director of Africa at BRAC International. Previously, she held leadership roles in NGOs, including Chief Operations Officer at Food for the Hungry, Executive Director for Africa for ONE Campaign, and Regional Director for the Southern Africa Region for World Vision.

Margaret O’Mara is Professor of American History at the University of Washington. She is the author of two books on the tech industry – The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley.

Bogolo Kenewendo is Special Adviser and Africa Director for the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. She previously served as a specially elected member of parliament and as Cabinet Minister of Investment, Trade, and Industry in Botswana.

Daniela Schwarzer is a member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Previously, she served as Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations and Executive Director for Europe and Central Asia at the Open Society Foundations.

Yolanda Botti-Lodovico is Policy and Advocacy Lead for the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, focused on harnessing artificial-intelligence and data solutions to help build a sustainable and prosperous future for all.

Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University. She is the author of Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India and Affirmative Action in India, and the editor of a number of other works.

Anna Lappé is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. She is the founder or co-founder of three organizations aimed at transforming the food industry, including the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund.

María Alejandra Vélez is a professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá. She began her career at the National Federation of Coffee Growers and the Institute of Biological Research Alexander von Humboldt.

Naveeda Khan, a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, sits on the board of the JHU Center for Islamic Studies and serves as affiliate faculty for the JHU Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Studies.

Marina Romanello is a climate-change and health researcher at University College London. She is Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown, an international, multidisciplinary collaboration dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change.