Steering Committee
The Steering Committee makes the general strategic decisions, selects the co-chairs of the Scientific Council, and, with the co-chairs, selects the members of the Scientific Council. The Steering Committee is composed of a dozen scholars of diverse origins and disciplines, who combine first-rate scholarship and experience in research management.
![Ernest Aryeetey](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/aryeetey.png)
Ernest Aryeetey
Professor of Economics and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana
![Olivier Bouin](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bouin.png)
Olivier Bouin
Director of the French Institute for Advanced Study Network (RFIEA), President of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities
![Mamadou Diouf](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/diouf.png)
Mamadou Diouf
Leitner Professor of African Studies, Columbia University, New York, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council
![Marie-Laure Djelic](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/djelic.png)
Marie-Laure Djelic
Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris
![Marc Fleurbaey](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fleurbaey.png)
Marc Fleurbaey
Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
![Nancy Fraser](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fraser.png)
Nancy Fraser
Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Science, New School, New York
![Katsuhito Iwai](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/iwai.png)
Katsuhito Iwai
Visiting Professor at ICU, Distinguished Fellow of the Tokyo Foundation, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
![Ravi Kanbur](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/kanbur.png)
Ravi Kanbur
Professor of Economics, Cornell University
![Cécile Laborde](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/laborde.png)
Cécile Laborde
Professor of Political Theory, University College London
![Vinh-Kim Nguyen](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nguyen.png)
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal
![Helga Nowotny](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nowotny.png)
Helga Nowotny
Professor of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
![Shalini Randeria](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/randeria.png)
Shalini Randeria
Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
![Elisa Reis](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/reis.png)
Elisa Reis
Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
![Leela Visaria](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/visaria.png)
Leela Visaria
Honorary Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research
![Elke Weber](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/weber.png)
Elke Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
![Michel Wieviorka](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/wieviorka.png)
Michel Wieviorka
Directeur d’Etudes EHESS, Administrator of Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
![Björn Wittrock](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/wittrock.png)
Björn Wittrock
Professor, University of Uppsala, Director of Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study
![Xiaobo Zhang](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/zhang.png)
Xiaobo Zhang
‘National 1000-Talent Program’ chair professor of economics and deputy dean, National School of Development, Peking University