Our Contributors

Faris Al-Sulayman, Co-Founder of Haala Energy, is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute and a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics.

David Eaves is Co-Deputy Director and Associate Professor of Digital Government at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

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

Adnan Hassan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the BIG Ideas Foundation, served on the board of directors at the World Bank Group and is the author of A Practical Guide to Sovereign Funds.

Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, is the co-author (with Diego Gambetta) of Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection Between Extremism and Education (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Carolyn Kissane is Associate Dean and Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs and Founding Director of NYU’s Energy, Climate, and Sustainability Lab.

Jonathan Levy, Professor of History at Sciences Po, is the author of Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (Random House, 2021) and The Real Economy: History and Theory (Princeton University Press, 2025).

Sami Mahroum, Policy Advisor and Professor of Practice at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, is the author of Black Swan Start-ups: Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Ulrike Malmendier, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, is Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Emilia Marshall is a research fellow at Economists for Ukraine.

Mia Amor Mottley is Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Barbados and a 2025 honoree of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.

Geoff Mulgan, a professor at University College London, is the author of When Science Meets Power (Polity, 2024).

José Antonio Ocampo, a former United Nations under-secretary-general and a former minister of finance and public credit of Colombia, is a professor at Columbia University, a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. He is the author of Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-author (with Luis Bértola) of The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Adenike Oladosu, Global Climate Champion at Education Cannot Wait, was named one of the world’s 100 most influential and inspiring women by the BBC in 2024.

Jaynisha Patel is a senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute.

Midori Paxton is Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Nature Hub.

Luanna Roncaratti is Deputy Secretary of Digital Government at Brazil’s Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.

Laurence Tubiana, a former French ambassador to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is CEO of the European Climate Foundation and a professor at the École Normale Supérieure.

Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, was Chair of the UK Financial Services Authority from 2008 to 2012. He is the author of many books, including Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance (Princeton University Press, 2016).

Gabriel Zucman is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and École Normale Supérieure, Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the EU Tax Observatory.