Our Contributors

Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is World Health Organization Ambassador for Global Health Financing and the author, most recently, of The Future Starts With Us (Simon & Schuster UK, September 2026).

Danielle Keats Citron, Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, is the author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (W. W. Norton, 2022) and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

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

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

Shishir Gupta is a senior fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress in New Delhi.

Martín Guzmán, a former minister of economy of Argentina, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and of the Jubilee Commission at the Vatican.

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

Mark Medish, a member of the US National Security Council under President Bill Clinton and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury, is a co-founder of Keep Our Republic, a non-partisan civic organization.

Robert Muggah, Co-Founder of the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Group, is a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy.

Esther Ngumbi is Associate Professor of Entomology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Carlos Nobre, a senior scientist at the University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Study, is Co-Chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon.

Gabriela Ramos, Co-Chair of the Task Force on Inequalities and Social-Related Financial Disclosures, is a former assistant director-general for social and human sciences at UNESCO, where she oversaw the development of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, and a former OECD chief of staff and sherpa to the G20, G7, and APEC.

Cecilia Rikap, Associate Professor of Economics and Head of Research at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, is the author, most recently, of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud (Verso Books, 2026).

Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam, is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water.

Angel Saz-Carranza is Director of EsadeGeo – Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and Professor of Strategy and Policy at Esade.

Anne C. Sibert is Professor Emerita of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London.

Mona Sloane is Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and author of Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life (University of California Press, 2026).

Ilona Sologoub is Editor of VoxUkraine.

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

Yaqiu Wang is a fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.