She has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Brookings, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Among many awards, she won the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative." The American Academy of Diplomacy selected her as the journalist of the year in 2004.

He is Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations dedicated to promoting entrepreneurs in emerging markets through financial support and basic business services. It focuses on supporting those who have a positive impact on the environment and society. ANDE has more than 200 members working in 150 emerging markets. As CEO, Randall oversees the implementation of its programs and agenda including training programs on how to invest in emerging markets, promoting investment opportunities, and the development of standardized metrics for financial return and social and environmental impact of such investments.

He joined the World Bank Group as Senior Director, Head of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice in November 2016. In his role, Riccardo leads a team of about 400 professionals in their work developing policies and financing in the global energy and extractive industries. In 2019, in addition to his role as Global Director, Riccardo assumed the position of Regional Director for Infrastructure in Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, Riccardo was the Managing Director in charge of Energy and Extractive Industries at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, leading a group of 100 professionals. He holds an MBA from Instituto Superior de Estudios de la Empresa (IESE) and postgraduate studies. He is fluent in five European languages.

He has led Chatham House since January 2007. Previously he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2001 to 2006. During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as director of the CSIS Europe Program and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. He is a frequent panelist at conferences and events around the world and has testified on a number of occasions to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as US Senate and House of Representatives committees on European Affairs. He received his BA, MPhil, and DPhil from Oxford University.

He started his diplomatic career in May 1987 when he was appointed Technical Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francisco Fernández Ordóñez. In 1988 he was appointed Consul of Spain to Manila, being appointed Technical Advisor again in 1990. A few months later, he was appointed Technical Advisor for the Relations of Spain with the Central and Eastern European countries. He has also served as ambassador of Spain to Romania, Moldova, and Germany, as well as director-general in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a Law Degree and speaks five languages: Spanish, English, French, German, and Romanian.

He has developed his professional path, career, and experience through key leadership, executive, and management roles in Academic and Research, Government and CEO positions.

He has previously been a professor at the University of Oxford (2009-2011), where he obtained his doctorate in 2003, and at the Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University (2004-2007). Graduated in 1996 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, he later trained at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Juan March Foundation, of which he is an associate member. His research focuses on the political origins and consequences of inequality, with a particular interest in the study of federalism, decentralization, and comparative tax systems. His most recent book is The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press), chosen as the best book on European politics published in 2012 by the American Political Science Association.

Born in Padova, he received his Laurea in “Economia e Commercio” in 1982, from Universita' "Ca' Foscari" in Venezia. Then he went to the University of Rochester to attend graduate school in 1983. In 1987 he received a Ph.D. with a Thesis titled "Stable, Cyclic and Chaotic Dynamics in Models of Economic Optimization Over Time". Lionel W. McKenzie was his Thesis Advisor. Since then, he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago (1986-87) and has held regular teaching positions at UCLA (1987-1990), MEDS at J.L. Kellogg GSM (1990-94) and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1994-1999). After he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1999. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the Economics Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.

Portuguese academic and politician. He was the Portuguese Minister for Regional Development from April 2013 to October 2015. Formerly, he was Director of the Global Governance Program and professor of law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Poiares Maduro was also a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at Yale University in the USA. He was also Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2003-2009)

(Minneapolis, 1953) holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorships of Political Science at Harvard University and is one of the world's leading authors in the field of political philosophy. The course on justice he has taught there for two decades is the most popular at the university. Author of numerous works, in Castilian, have been published Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (2002), Against perfection (2007), Public philosophy: essays on morality in politics (2008) and Justice. Do we do what we should? (Debate, 2011). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Before joining ESADE, Professor Vives was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Vives has participated in executive education programs in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has designed, taught and worked in multinationals in different sectors including financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, wines and spirits, logistics and industrial companies such as FIA, APM Terminals - Maersk Group, Bayer, Telefónica, Roland DG, and more. As an expert in strategy, he has supported CEOs and management teams in strategy and talent development.

He writes the Bello column on Latin America and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He is based in Madrid. He joined The Economist in 1990 as Mexico and Central America correspondent and in 1994 changed to cover consumer industries. In 1996 he moved to São Paulo to be the bureau chief and in 1999 returned to London as Americas Editor, a post he held until December 2013. His books include “Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul” (2007) and “Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power” (April 2014), both published by Yale University Press. Mr. Reid is a frequent speaker on Latin American and Iberian affairs, to business, academic, and public policy audiences. He is also a frequent guest on television, radio and print outlets in several countries.