Nigerian-Canadian. Economist, scholar, public policy expert. Chief Economist at NYCEDC, New York. Focused on trade policy, innovation, FDI, urban policy, and inclusive development. A distinguished economist, professor, and public policy…

American. Economist, author, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School. Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau…

Tunisian. Economist, international Expert on Inclusive and Sustainable Socio-economic Models, Financial Architecture and Stability and Sustainable Finance. Rym Ayadi is Professor at CASS Business School, Member of the Centre for…

Thai. Professor and Director of the Institute for Science and International Security at Chulalongkorn University. Thitinan was born in Thailand and grew up in a multilingual and multicultural background, attended…

Development Reimagined is a pioneering international development consultancy in China, advising in particular: Chinese businesses how to invest in Africa sustainably; sustainable African businesses how to enter the Chinese market;…

She has published several books. Her work focuses on the global financial system, sovereign debt restructuring, international finance and sustainable development. Pettifor is best known for correctly predicting the financial…

Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Head of the “Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning” (1992–1993) and current Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and…

Jayati Ghosh taught Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and from January 2021 she has been Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. She has…

Rick Bookstaber is the author of The End of Theory (Princeton, 2017), and A Demon of Our Own Design (Wiley, 2007). He is the founder of Talagent Financial, a platform for providing…

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a professorship in government at The University of Texas…

Nigerian economist, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, former Emir of Kano.  His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II became the 14th Fulani Emir of Kano in 2014. Born July…

William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics at Brown University, author.  Blyth grew up in Dundee, Scotland. In 1991, Blyth received a Walker Bequest award from the University of Strathclyde…

Scholar, author, public intellectual. Associate Professor of Political & Social Thought at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies.  Albena Azmanova has written extensively on the transformation of…

Chinese economist, associate professor of economics at the London School of Economics and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.  Her research focuses on global trade imbalances, global asset prices…

Professor of Financial Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics of Statistics Department at McMaster University. He was the Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in…