Our Contributors

Martín Abeles is Professor of Development Economics at the National University of San Martín and Regional Director of Research and Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs).

Véronique Chabourine is a strategic analyst specializing in global power dynamics, geoeconomics, and international political economy.

Helen Clark, a former prime minister of New Zealand and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, is Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Board and a member of The Elders.

Mark-Alexandre Doumba is Minister of Digital Economy and Innovation of Gabon.

Gene Frieda, a former global strategist at PIMCO, is a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel.

Bård Harstad is Professor of Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Professor of Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Michael Ignatieff, Rector Emeritus of Central European University, is a former Canadian politician and the author, most recently, of The Russian Album (Pushkin Press, 2023).

Zaki Laïdi, Professor of International Politics at Sciences Po, is a former special adviser to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (2020-24) and the author of the forthcoming A Post-Liberal World.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press, 2023), which won the 2024 PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management. Her research focuses on international finance, sovereign wealth funds, industrial policies, and the geoeconomics of the energy transition.

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

Dalia Marin, Professor of International Economics at the School of Management of the Technical University of Munich, is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel.

Maíra Martini is CEO of Transparency International.

Jan-Werner Mueller, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the author of the forthcoming Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces (Penguin Books, 2026).

Marcin Piatkowski, a former lead economist at the World Bank for private-sector development in China and India, is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University and the author of Europe’s Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Brune Poirson, a former French secretary of state to the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, is the founder of Udaan Advisory.

Natalie Samarasinghe is Co-Founder of 1 for 8 Billion and Executive Director of Vibe Fund.

Susan Stokes, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Faculty Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, is the author of The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies (Princeton University Press, 2025).

Steve Tsang, Director of the SOAS China Institute at SOAS University of London, is the co-author (with Olivia Cheung) of China’s Global Strategy under Xi Jinping (Oxford University Press, 2026).

Sally Wentworth is President and CEO of the Internet Society and the Internet Society Foundation.

S. Alex Yang is Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School.