Experts
The following leading experts from research institutes and think tanks from G7 countries are participating in the 2022 Think7 process and contributing to the work of the various task forces. As more pledges are made to serve on task forces, the list grows.
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Abla Abdel-Latif
Executive Director and Director of Research, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES)
Pedro Ahlers
Sustainability Innovation Architect, New Ventures and Technologies at SAP
Mehmet Sait Akman
Director of G20 Studies Centre, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)
Andrzej Ancygier
Senior Climate Policy Analyst, Climate Analytics
Marie-Camille Attard
Unit Lead in Climate Policy, Climate Analytics
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Mona Badran
Digital Economy Professor, Cairo University & World Bank
Tim Banning
Senior Expert International Energy Policy , Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH dena
Fabio Battaglia
Executive Reserach Assistant, Institute for Global Prosperity
Sabine Baunach
Researcher, German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG)
Marianne Beisheim
Senior Associate in Global Issues Division,
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Kathrin Berensmann
Senior Researcher, project leader,
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Philipp Bien
PhD Candidate, University of Konstanz
Ndemo Bitange
Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Henry Bittig
Scientist, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
Jack Bobo
Director of Global Food and Water Policy, The Nature Conservancy
Rick Bright
Senior Vice President, Pandemic Prevention Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation
Willo Brock
Director of External Affairs, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics
Michael Brüntrup
Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Sara Burke
Senior Expert, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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Selmin Caliskan
Director for Institutional Relations, Open Society Foundations
Ilan Chabay
Head of Strategic Science Initiatives and Programs; Senior Investigator, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Michael Cichon
Fellow, International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
Jorge Cuartas
PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Gora Datta
FHL7 University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Deitelhoff
Professor of International Relations and Theories, Goethe University Frankfurt
María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal
Professor of Health Promotion, University of Costa Rica
Andrew Deutz
Director of Global Policy, Institutions and Conservation Finance, The Nature Conservancy
Simon Dikau
Research Officer, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jakob Dirksen
Research and Policy Officer, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
Vidya Diwakar
Researcher, Overseas Development Institute
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Hani Eskandar
Digital Services Senior Coordinator, ITU Development Bureau
Ilaria Espa
Senior Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
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T. Robert Fetter
Senior Fellow, Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Andy Filardo
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Fernando Filgueira
Head of Office, United Nations Population Fund
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Françoise Gaill
Senor Researcher, CNRS Institute for ecology and environment (INEE)
Kevin P. Gallagher
Professor of global development policy, Boston University Global Development Policy Center
Miguel Gamino, Jr.
EVP, Enterprise Partnerships & Head of Global Cities and City Possible, Mastercard
Matthew Gamser
CEO, SME Finance Forum, World Bank/IFC
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Director, DG Trade in the European Commission
Alicia Garcia Herrero
Chief Economist, Asia Pacific at Natixis
Bruce Gellin
Chief of Global Public Health Strategy, Pandemic Prevention Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation
Sophie Gepp
Research associate, German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG)
Githinji Gitahi
Global Chief Executive Officer, Amref Health Africa
Kristina M. Gjerde
Senior High Seas Advisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Amanda Glassman
Executive vice president, Center for Global Development
Jenny Gordon
Non-resident Fellow, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australia National University (ANU)
Liz Grant
Assistant Principal , University of Edinburgh
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Columbia University
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Andreas Hansen
Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
Bill Hare
CEO, Climate Analytics
Brendan Harnoys-Vannier
Research Economist, The Global Development Network
Cecil Haverkamp
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Sheila JJ Heymans
Executive Director , European Marine Board (EMB)
Aidan Hollis
Professor, University of Calgary and Incentives for Global Health
Jonas Hörsch
Co-lead of the energy modelling unit, Climate Analytics
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Eri Ishimaki
Think7 Assistant, ADBI
Moinul Islam
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Future Design
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Frank Jotzo
Professor, Australian National University
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Michelle Kaffenberger
Research Fellow, RISE Programme at the University of Oxford
Adam Kamradt-Scott
Professor and Chair of Global Public Health, European University Institute
Caitlin Katsiaficas
Research & Policy | Migration & Displacement, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Rebecca Katz
Director, Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University
Martin Kessler
Economist, OECD
Syed Munir Khasru
Chairman of Institute for Policy, The Institute for Policy, Advocacy and Governance (IPAG)
Ilona Kickbusch
Elizabeth M. King
Senior Fellow, Managing Editor, Brookings Institution and the Journal of Development Effectiveness
Birgit Klein
Oceanographer, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)
Stephan Klingebiel
Head of Programme Inter- and Transnational Cooperation, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institute für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Sherman Kong
Head of GovStack Initiative, UNF-DIAL
Robert Koopman
Chief Economist, World Trade Organization
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Anthony Lacavaro
Principal, Aquarian Holdings
Mark Lambrides
Global Director, Energy and Climate Partnerships, The Nature Conservancy
Hajo Lanz
Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Melissa Leach
Director , Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Tabea Lissner
Head of Vulnerability and Adaptation; Co-head of Programme Strategies,
Climate Analytics
Lea-Marie Löbel
Junior Professional Officer, International Labour Organization (ILO) Berlin
Marta Lomazzi
Executive Manager, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Rayhaan Lorgat
Research Assistant, Institute for Global Prosperity
Elizabeth Losos
Senior Fellow, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
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Hayley MacGregor
Professor, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Yolanda Martinez
Overall Lead for GovStack Initiative, ITU Development Bureau
Juliana Martínez Franzoni
Professor, University of Costa Rica
Bruce McKenney
Global Director, Renewable Energy, The Nature Conservancy
Ali Mehdi
Senior Visiting Fellow and Lead, Health Policy Initiative,
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Garrett Mehl
Unit Head, World Health Organisation
Katharina Molitor
Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Irene Monasterolo
Professor of Climate Finance, EDHEC Business School and EDHEC-Risk Institute
Henrietta Moore
Founder and Director,
University College London (UCL)
, Institute for Global Prosperity
Katrina Moseley
Research Associate, Institute for Global Prosperity
Derrick Muneene
Unit Head, World Health Organisation
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Minerva Novero
Policy Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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David Obura
Director, CORDIO East Africa
Brian Omwenga
Team leader , Tech Innovators Network – ThiNK, University of Nairobi, Kenya
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Andrew Percy
Co-Chair of the Social Prosperity Network, Institute for Global Prosperity
Birgit Pickel
Director General for Africa, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Louis Pizarro
Secretary General, Santé Mondiale 2030
Stefan Profit
Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
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K. Srinath Reddy
President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Bill Rodriguez
Chief Executive Officer, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics
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Navroop K. Sahdev
Connection Science Fellow, MIT Connection Science
Karishma Saran
Senior Manager, Advocacy and Communications, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics
Ambassador Günter Sautter
Director General, United Nations and Arms Control in the Federal Foreign Office
Wolfgang Schmidt
Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Head of the Chancellery, Federal Republic of Germany
Jeffrey J. Schott
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, PIIE
Lord Mark Sedwill
Chairman, Atlantic Future Forum
Andrew Seely
Director, Architecture and Engineering (A&E), MindPoint Group
Maija Setälä
Professor, University of Turku
Alpesh Shah
Andrew Shepherd
Principal Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Paul Shrivastava
Chief Sustainability Officer, Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Chief Executive, South African Institute of International Affairs
Tamara Singh
Strategic Advisor, People Centered Internet
Eleni Smitham
Research assistant, Center for Global Development
Moekti Handajani Soejachmoen
Executive Director, Indonesia Research Institute for Decarbonization (IRID)
Agnès Soucat
Head of Division of Health and Social Protection, Agence Française de Développement
Ken Spours
Professor, UCL Institute of Education
Paola Subacchi
Professor of International Economics, Chair of the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute's Advisory Board ,
Queen Mary University of London
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Robert Tansey
Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
Torsten Thiele
Senior Advisor, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Global Ocean Trust
Mina Toksoz
Honorary Lecturer , Alliance Manchester Business School
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Sebastian Unger
Head of the Ocean Governance Research Group,
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
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Paul van den Noord
Affiliate Member and Theme group leader , University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)
Martin van der Pütten
Head of International Relations, City of Dortmund
Antonio Villafranca
Director of Studies and Co-Head of the Europe and Global Governance Centre,
Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
David Vines
Programme Director , Economics Department and Balliol College, University of Oxford
Ulrich Volz
Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance, SOAS, University of London, Senior Researcher,
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Anja von Moltke
Head of the UNEP's Environment and Trade Hub, UN Environment Programme, UNEP
Maike Voss
Managing Director, German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG)
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Martin Wagner
Senior Policy Advisor Asylum, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Jake Watson
Senior Director, UNF-DIAL
Kate Wilson
Executive Director, Climate Change and Sustainability, NSW Department of Planning and Environment
Alex Wong
Head of Global Challenge Partnerships, ITU
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Shinobu Yamaguchi
Director, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
Skye Gilbert Yoden
Digital Square & Strategy Director, PATH's Programs & Innovation