Our Contributors

Nicholas Agar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, the author of How to Be Human in the Digital Economy (MIT Press, 2019), and co-author, with Dan Weijers and Stuart Whatley, of How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic's Guide to Technology (Springer Cham, 2024).

Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a former vice president of Egypt, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, jointly with the IAEA.

Mary-Ann Etiebet is President and CEO of Vital Strategies.

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Irena Grudzińska Gross is a professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a 2018 Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation. Her books include Miłosz and the Long Shadow of War (Pogranicze, 2020), and Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (Yale University Press, 2009).

Christy Hoffman is General Secretary of UNI Global Union.

Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni human-rights activist, is the first woman from the Arab world to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Peter G. Kirchschläger, Professor of Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics at the University of Lucerne, is a visiting professor at ETH Zurich.

Adam Michnik, a leader of Solidarity in 1989 and a participant in the round table talks that ended communist rule in Poland, is Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza.

Soňa Muzikárová, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, is a former economist at the European Central Bank, a former diplomat at the OECD, and a former senior adviser to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author, most recently, of What Is Happening to Us? 121 Ideas to Make Sense of the 21st Century (Grupo Editorial, Penguin Random House, 2024).

Maurice Obstfeld, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bartosz M. Rydliński is an assistant professor in political science at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.

Azalina Othman Said, a minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), is President of the Assembly of Parties of the International Anti-Corruption Academy in 2024.

Sophie Scherger is Policy Officer for Climate and Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s European office.

Ilona Sologoub is Editor of VoxUkraine.

Oleg Ustenko was an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from May 2019 until March 2024.

Stuart Whatley is Senior Editor at Project Syndicate and co-author, with Nicholas Agar and Dan Weijers, of How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic's Guide to Technology (Springer Cham, 2024).