Advisory Board
The Advisory board is composed of 60+ high-level/high-impact personalities with relevant competence and experience: international scholars, civil society organizations actors, social innovators, business leaders, (former) policymakers, philanthropists, etc. It will meet once a year to discuss thematic proposals and projects, to determine priority activities, and to identify potential team leaders for the approved activities (reports, briefs, events). Along with the 12 members of the Coordination Council, the first members are:
A detailed presentation of the members of the Advisory board is available in this document.
Jari Ala-Ruona
Serial entrepreneur, CEO of Aion Sigma, Mentor at Oxygen50
Marta Arretche
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo
Gustaf Arrhenius
Adelle Blackett
Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University
Romina Boarini
Director of WISE, the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity at OECD
Gustavo Cardoso
Professor of Communication Sciences at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute
Lars-Erik Cederman
Professor of international conflict research, ETH Zürich
Martha Chen
Anabel Cruz
Institute for Communication and Development, Lead Civil Society Co-Chair of Open Government Partnership
Leila Dagher
Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Economic Adviser to several public officials, and adjunct lecturer at the George Washington University
Purnamita Dasgupta
IPCC and IPBES Member, and Chair in Environmental Economics and Head, Environmental and Resource Economics Unit Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, Delhi, India
Mathieu Denis
Senior Director, Head of the Centre for Science Futures, International Science Council
Fatima Denton
Director of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA)
Gala Diaz-Langou
Director of CIPPEC, Buenos-Aires
Aidan Eyakuze
Executive Director of Twaweza East Africa
Warren Feek
Executive Director of The Communication Initiative Network and Partnership
Isabelle Ferreras
FNRS Researcher, Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Louvain-la-Neuve
Fernando Filgueira
Head of Office at the United Nations Population Fund in Uruguay, and Professor, Social Science Faculty, Universidad de la República
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Professor of international Affairs at The New School, New York
Debra Furr-Holden
Dean of New York University’s School of Global Public Health.
Ugo Gentilini
Global Lead for Social Assistance with the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice at the World Bank
Sascha Haselmayer
Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Germany Partner, social entrepreneur, author of The Slow Lane
Saleemul Huq†
Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and Professor at the Independent University, Bangladesh
Samia Huq
Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology at Brac University, Bangladesh
Lila Karbassi
Chair of the SBTi Executive Board, and Senior Programme Officer of Science-Based Target Setting at the United Nations Global Compact
Uichol Kim
IFP Distinguished professor at College of Business Administration, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
Dina Kiwan
Professor in Comparative Education, University of Birmingham
Daniel Kostzer
Chief Economist, International Trade Union Confederation
Will Kymlicka
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s University in Kingston
Guillermo Larrain
Professor of Economics, Universidad de Chile
Sangheon Lee
Director of the Employment Policy Department of the ILO
Amandine Lepoutre
President of Thinkers & Doers, President of Art for Action
Juliana Martinez-Franzoni
Humboldt Chair and Professor of social policy at the University of Costa Rica
Shanaaz Mathews
Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
Claire Mellier
Co-founder of the Global Assembly
Leticia Merino
Senior researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Doris Mwikali
SD4 Education2030 High Level Steering Committee, UNESCO; Education Program Coordinator, UNICEF,
Laurie Nathan
Professor of the Practice of Mediation and Director of the Mediation Program at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Charmaine Pereira
Writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria
Wizdom Powell
Chief Purpose Officer, Headspace & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut
Camille Putois
CEO of B4IG (Business for Inclusive Growth)
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO
Marta Roig
Chief, Emerging Issues and Trends in Development Section, DESA, UN
Rana Sabbagh
Senior editor for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Gonzalo Sozzo
Professor at the National University of the Littoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
Diane Stone
Professor at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
Laurence Tubiana
CEO of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and Professor at Sciences Po, Paris
Stefaan Verhulst
Co-Founder and Director of GovLab’s Data Program
Helena Wajnman
Executive Director, Republica.org
David Williams
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Woo Wing-Thye
Vice President for Asia of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Bahru Zewde
Professor of History, University of Addis Ababa
Xiaobo Zhang
Senior research fellow at IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Unit and chair professor of economics at Peking University