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Sarah Cohen

Sarah Cohen is the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. She won the 2009 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting as well as the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

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Didier Jacobs

Didier Jacobs is the special adviser on policy at Oxfam America.

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Raymond C. Offenheiser

Raymond C. Offenheiser is the president of Oxfam America.

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Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati's most recent book is In Defense of Globalization. He is a University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University and a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Kerri Webster

Kerri Webster is the author of We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone and Grand and Arsenal. Her work has appeared in High Chair, At Length, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, and Handsome.

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Howard White

Howard White is a senior evaluation officer of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank.

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J.D. Nordell

J.D. Nordell has published essays in The New York Times, Slate, and Salon. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.

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Carlos Barbery

Carlos Barbery has been working on the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean almost all of his professional life. He is a native of Bolivia.

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Robert H. Bates

Robert H. Bates is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His most recent book is Prosperity and Violence. He was a 2001 Carnegie Scholar.

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Brian Kim Stefans

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and Assistant Professor of English at UCLA. He is the editor of the /ubu (”slash ubu”) series of e-books at www.ubu.com/ubu and the creator of arras.net, devoted to new media poetry and poetics, where most of his work, including his own series of Arras e-books, can be found.

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Alice H. Amsden

Alice H. Amsden (1944 – 2012) was the Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy at MIT.

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Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His books include Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality and Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

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Ian Vásquez

Ian Vásquez is the director of the Cato Institute's Project on Global Economic Liberty.

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Mick Moore

Mick Moore is a professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, U.K., and the director of the Centre for the Future State.

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John Wilkinson

John Wilkinson teaches literary studies and creative writing at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book of poems is Lake Shore Drive.

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Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Nation.

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F. Halsey Rogers

F. Halsey Rogers is a senior economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank.

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Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin is the vice president for external affairs and United Nations affairs at the World Bank.

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at MIT and winner, with Esther Duflo, of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Yvonne Woon

Yvonne Woon graduated from Columbia University in May. This is her first publication.

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David Rivard

David Rivard is the author of Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison, and, most recently, Sugartown.

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Susie Linfield

Susie Linfield, former director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU, is author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence.

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Landis Everson

Landis Everson is the author of Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005, edited by Ben Mazer. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

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Jonathan Fox

Jonathan Fox teaches in the department of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His essay draws on the conclusions of the report (which he co-edited): No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States, published by UCSC and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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