Board of Directors
The Board of Directors organizes and leads the activities of IPSP. It is composed of a mix of personalities involved in the first IPSP cycle and individuals bringing think-tank, philanthropy and international organization experience. The first members are :
Olivier Bouin
Head of the Réseau français des instituts d'études avancées
As head of the Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées, a scientific research foundation founded in 2007, Olivier Bouin has been leading European and international collaborations for the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NETIAS) and for the global network of university-based insti-tutes (UBIAS). He was a founding member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities for which he served as a member of the Board (2015-2018) and then as the chair (2018-2021). He co-founded and has been co-chairing the World Pandemic Research Network since 2020. He was the executive director of the European Institute for Chinese Studies from 2019 to 2022
Gala Diaz-Langou
Executive Director, CIPPEC
Professor of public policy at the Torcuato di Tella University, Gala Diaz Langou has been working with CIPPEC in Buenos Aires since 2006 where she led the Social Protection team (2016-2021). She has also worked as an international consultant for several United Nations agencies and other international organizations and governments of the Latin American Region. Her work is focused on doing applied research on gender and children’s rights. She was selected as one of the 500 most influential people in Latin America and she was invited to the Group of 100 Women Leaders. She is a Delegate to W20 representing Argentina.
Marc Fleurbaey
Senior researcher, CNRS Professor, Paris School of Economics
Marc Fleurbaey is associate professor at ENS-Ulm, and up to 2020 was Robert E. Kuenne Professor at Princeton University. He is the author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, Oxford University Press, 2013), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare (Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2008). He is a former editor of Social Choice and Welfare and Economics and Philosophy and is currently an associate editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is a lead author of its Manifesto for Social Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He was a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Report, a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (2016-2021), and he has co-chaired task forces of the T20. He has been one of the initiators of the International Panel on Social Progress in 2014 and member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.
Hossain Zillur Rahman
Founder-chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre
Since its inception in 1996, the Dhaka-based think-tank Power and Participation Research Centre has been at the forefront of research and policy advocacy on poverty, social protection, land, inclusive growth, governance, local governance, political development, basic education and sustainable urbanization. Its founder Hossain Rahman was a leading researcher at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. He was a member of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation (2003-2006) and served on the board of the Central Bank of Bangladesh. He was appointed advisor (cabinet minister) in charge of the ministries of Commerce and Education in the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh (2007-2008) and was credited with a lead role in the return of Bangladesh to electoral democracy. He was elected chairperson of BRAC, one of the world’s largest NGO, in 2019.
He has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.
Margo Thomas
President and CEO, Women’s Economic Imperative
Margo Thomas is a thought leader for inclusive economic growth, gender equality, social justice, and social cohesion and supports initiatives increasing opportunities for the economic empowerment of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups globally. She has strong international expertise in private sector development, investment promotion, trade and competitiveness, and women’s economic empowerment. She has a long experience in the World Bank Group where she provided policy advice to some 50 developing, transitioning, and post-conflict governments. She led the independent secretariat of Ban Ki Moon’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. She is active in the Think20 Engagement Group of the G20 and previously as co-chair of the T20 taskforce on Women’s Economic Equity (2018); of the T20 taskforce on SDGs (2019); as a member of the COVID-19 Response Taskforce and of the T7 and T20 Social Cohesion Task Forces.
She has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.