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.

Lord Mark Sedwill

Chairman, Atlantic Future Forum

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Stavros Afionis

Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

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)

Fanny Syariful Alam

Regional Coordinator, Bandung School of Peace Indonesia (SEKODI)

Alan Alexandroff

Director, Global Summitry Project

Andrzej Ancygier

Senior Climate Policy Analyst, Climate Analytics

Linda Arthur

Senior Specialist, Asian Development Bank Institute

Maxim Asjoma

Advisor to the CEO, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH

John Aston

Professor, University of Cambridge

Marie-Camille Attard

Unit Lead in Climate Policy, Climate Analytics

Dina Azhgaliyeva

Researcher, ADB Institute

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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

Steffen Bauer

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Sabine Baunach

Researcher, German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG)

Camilla Bausch

Director, Ecologic Institut gGmbH

Markus Bayer

Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center for Conversion

John Beirne

Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute

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 Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Rhoda Berger

COO, Global Perspectives Initiative

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Philipp Bien

PhD Candidate, University of Konstanz

Nicola Bilotta

Senior fellow, IAI (International Affairs Institute)

Henry Bittig

Scientist, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)

Merike Blofield

Director, ILAS, GIGA

Jack Bobo

Director of Global Food and Water Policy, The Nature Conservancy

Doreen Bogdan

Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union

Mauricio Böhl

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Tom Bollyky

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Clara Brandi

Head of Programme, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Rick Bright

Senior Vice President, Pandemic Prevention Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation

Willo Brock

Director of External Affairs, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics

Lars Brozus

Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Franco Bruni

Vice President, Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

Michael Brüntrup

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Nicolas J.A. Buchoud

Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative

Sara Burke

Senior Expert, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Creon Butler

Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme, Chatham House

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Selmin Caliskan

Director for Institutional Relations, Open Society Foundations

Philipp Censkowsky

Researcher and consultant, Perspectives Climate Research

Ilan Chabay

Head of Strategic Science Initiatives and Programs; Senior Investigator, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

Milindo Chakrabarti

Professor, Sharda University

Michael Cichon

Fellow, International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)

Daniel Cohen

Chairman of the Board of Directors, PSE-Paris School of Economics

Brahima Coulibaly

Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development Programme, Brookings

Edoardo Croci

Enviromental economist, Università Bocconi

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Professor of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Jorge Cuartas

PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Yose Rizal Damuri

Executive Director, CSIS

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

Paramita Dey

Assistant Professor, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology

Markus Dietrich

Director Policy iBAN, GIZ - Inclusive Business Action Network

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

Sonja Dobson

Senior Research Analyst, G7 Research Group

Matthew Doherty

Head of External Relations, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership

Dieter Dohmen

Managing Director, FiBS Forschungsinstitut für Bildungs- und Sozialökonomie

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Burcu Eke-Schneider

Peace Worker / PhD Candidate, University of Wuppertal

Mark Elder

Director of Research and Publications, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Hani Eskandar

Digital Services Senior Coordinator, ITU Development Bureau

Ilaria Espa

Senior Assistant Professor of International Economic Law, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)

Benjamin Etzold

Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center for Conversion

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Alexia Faus Onbargi

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

T. Robert Fetter

Senior Fellow, Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

David Fidler

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Andy Filardo

Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Fernando Filgueira

Head of Office, United Nations Population Fund

Sarah Fischer

Lead GovStack Flagship - Global Program Digital Transformation , GIZ

Sean Flynn

Associate Professor of Economics, Scripps College

Andreas Freytag

Professor of Economics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

Mei Lin Fung

Chair, People Centered Internet

Claire Fyson

Head of Climate Policy - Mitigation Pathway Analysis, Climate Analytics

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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

Henry Gao

Professor, Singapore Management University

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

Harris Gleckman

Senior Fellow, FOGGS - Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability

Paul Grainger

Honorary Senior Research Associate, University College London (UCL)

Liz Grant

Assistant Principal , University of Edinburgh

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Columbia University

Gianluca Grimalda

Senior researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Nilima Gulrajani

Senior Research Fellow, ODI

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Andreas Hansen

Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

Hemnath Rao Hanumankar

Director, StratPol International Advisory Services (OPC) Pvt Ltd

Bill Hare

CEO, Climate Analytics

Brendan Harnoys-Vannier

Research Economist, The Global Development Network

Sebastian Haug

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

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

Michael Holz

Research Associate, Institute for SME Research Bonn

Derek Hondo

Capacity Building and Training (CBT) Coordinator, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Jonas Hörsch

Co-lead of the energy modelling unit, Climate Analytics

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Gabriela Iacobuta

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Moinul Islam

Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Future Design

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Daniela Jacob

Director, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Michael Jakob

Researcher, Ecologic Institute

Frank Jotzo

Professor, Australian National University

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Michelle Kaffenberger

Research Fellow, RISE Programme at the University of Oxford

Linda Kalcher

Director EU Green Deal Diplomacy, European Climate Foundation

Adam Kamradt-Scott

Professor and Chair of Global Public Health, European University Institute

Stephen Karingi

Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division, Economic Commission for Africa

Christian Kastrop

Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative

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

Ilona Kickbusch

Chair, Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Nora Kiefer

Senior Project Manager, Global Perspectives Initiative

Elizabeth M. King

Senior Fellow, Managing Editor, Brookings Institution and the Journal of Development Effectiveness

Declan Kirrane

Chairman, Global Science Collaboration Conference

John Kirton

Director, G7 Research Group , G20 Research Group

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)

Adolf Kloke-Lesch

Co-Chair SDSN Europe, SDSN

Sherman Kong

Head of GovStack Initiative, UNF-DIAL

Robert Koopman

Chief Economist, World Trade Organization

Georgios Kostakos

Executive Director, FOGGS - Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability

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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

Sabine Laudage

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Melissa Leach

Director , Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Rafael Leal-Arcas

Professor of International Economic Law, Queen Mary University of London

Katharina Lima de Miranda

Programme Manager, THE NEW INSTITUTE

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

Maike Luiken

Managing Director, Research & Development, CARBOVATE Development Corp.

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Hayley MacGregor

Professor, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Stefan Mair

Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Daniele Malerba

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Rohit Malpani

Consultant, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership

Yolanda Martinez

Overall Lead for GovStack Initiative, ITU Development Bureau

Juliana Martínez Franzoni

Professor, University of Costa Rica

John McArthur

Director, Brookings Center for Sustainable Development

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

Christoph Meinel

Director and CEO, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH

Axel Michaelowa

Research Director, Perspectives Climate Research

Stormy Mildner

Director, Aspen Institute

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

Philani Mthembu

Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogues

Derrick Muneene

Unit Head, World Health Organisation

Eileen Murray

Chair, FINRA

Max Mutschler

Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center for Conversion

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Eric Neumeister

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Colin Nolden

Researcher, University of Bristol , Oxford University

Minerva Novero

Policy Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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David Obura

Director, CORDIO East Africa

Andrea Ordóñez

Director, Southern Voice

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Susan Parnell

Professor, University of Bristol and University of Cape Town

Corine Pelluchon

Professor in Philosophy, Gustave Eiffel University/Fellow The New Institute

Corine Pelluchon

Professor, Université Gustave Eiffel

Andrew Percy

Co-Chair of the Social Prosperity Network, Institute for Global Prosperity

Sonja Peterson

Senior Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Birgit Pickel

Director General for Africa, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Louis Pizarro

Secretary General, Santé Mondiale 2030

Thomas Pogge

Professor, Yale

Annalisa Prizzon

Senior Research Fellow, ODI

Stefan Profit

Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

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Dil Rahut

Senior Fellow, ADB Institute

Judith Ramadan

Program Lead & Head of Operations, Global Perspectives Initiative

K. Srinath Reddy

President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Agustin Redonda

Senior Fellow, Council on Economic Policies

David Rhew

Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare, Microsoft

Walter Ricciardi

President, Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità)

Bill Rodriguez

Chief Executive Officer, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics

Simone Romano

Economist at office of the Chief Economist, OECD

David Roos

E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Bettina Rudloff

Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik , German Institute for International and Security Affairs

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Navroop K. Sahdev

Connection Science Fellow, MIT Connection Science

Tatsuyoshi Saijo

Director, Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Head of Department, Oxford University

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

Ronja Scheler

Programme Director International Affairs, Körber-Stiftung - Körber Foundation

Rene Schmidpeter

Founder, M3TRIX - Institute for Sustainable Business Transformation

Wolfgang Schmidt

Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Head of the Chancellery, Federal Republic of Germany

Claudia Schmucker

Head of Geo-Economics Program, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Marianne Schneider-Petsinger

Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House

Mirja Schoderer

Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Imme Scholz

Former Deputy Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Jeffrey J. Schott

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, PIIE

Max Schumann

GIZ

Andrew Seely

Director, Architecture and Engineering (A&E), MindPoint Group

Maija Setälä

Professor, University of Turku

Alpesh Shah

Manal Shehabi

Academic, Oxford University

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, The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF)

Eleni Smitham

Research assistant, Center for Global Development

Dennis Snower

President, Global Solutions Initiative

Moekti Handajani Soejachmoen

Executive Director, Indonesia Research Institute for Decarbonization (IRID)

Safdar SOHAIL

Dean, National Institute of Public Policy at National School of Public Policy

Tetsushi Sonobe

Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute

Agnès Soucat

Head of Division of Health and Social Protection, Agence Française de Développement

Caroline Spanaus

Global Perspectives Initiative

Ken Spours

Professor, UCL Institute of Education

Ronald Steenblik

Senior Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

David Steven

Senior Fellow, UN Foundation

Michael Stolpe

Senior economist, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Lindsay Stringer

Professor in Environment and Development, University of York

Christoph Strupat

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Michele Stua

Researcher, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Paola Subacchi

Professor of International Economics, Chair of the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute's Advisory Board , Queen Mary University of London

Saravanan Subramanian

Senior Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Daniel Suryadarma

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

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Robert Tansey

Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

Peter Taylor

Director of Research, Institute of Development Studies

Davide Tentori

Research Fellow, Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

Torsten Thiele

Senior Advisor, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Global Ocean Trust

Mozelle Thompson

Strategic Advisor, UBMe, Inc.

Nathalie Tocci

Director, IAI

Mina Toksoz

Honorary Lecturer , Alliance Manchester Business School

Joyce Treptow

Research Fellow, UNU-Merit

Sébastian Treyer

Executive Director, IDDRI Sustainable Developments & Internationa Relations

Paul Twomey

Fellow, Global Solutions Initiative

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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

Ingo Venzke

Professor / Fellow, THE NEW INSTITUTE

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 Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)