Our Contributors

Ylli Bajraktari, a former chief of staff to the US National Security Adviser and a former executive director of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, is CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project.

Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Centre for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, is the co-author (with Nicolò Fraccaroli) of the forthcoming Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025) and the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Ahmet Davutoğlu is a former prime minister (2014-16) and foreign minister (2009-14) of Turkey.

Jessica Dickinson Goodman is a former board president of the Internet Society’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.

Xiaolan Fu is Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development, Founder of OxValue.AI, and Professor of Technology and International Development at the University of Oxford.

Michele Gelfand, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Stanford University, is the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 2019).

Paolo Gentiloni, former European Commissioner for Economy, is Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Paolo Gentiloni, former European Commissioner for Economy, is Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Glenn Hubbard, Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University, is a former chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.

William H. Janeway is a distinguished affiliated professor in economics at the University of Cambridge and author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Trevor Manuel is a former minister of finance of South Africa and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Julie McCarthy is CEO of NatureFinance.

Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt, is a former minister of investment of Egypt (2004-10), former senior vice president of the World Bank Group, and former executive director of the International Monetary Fund. He is a visiting senior research scholar at Columbia Business School, a fellow at the World Academy of Art and Science, and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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.

Heela Rasool-Ayub is Director of Planetary Politics at New America.

Shamika Sirimanne is Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General of UN Trade and Development.

Paola Subacchi is Professor and Chair in Sovereign Debt at Sciences Po.

Lori Wallach is Director of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project.

Yan Wang, a former senior economist at the World Bank, is Senior Academic Researcher at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and Co-Chair of the Expert Group on Debt.

Pierre du Rostu is CEO of AXA’s Digital Commercial Platform.