- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik , who chairs the Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Development, is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ... Professor Rodrik is the research coordinator for the Group of 24 (G-24), a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). - Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the United States. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resister (draft dodger) and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her anti-pornography film, "Not a Love Story". Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. - Kofi Annan
Annan must also be commended for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and for his sustained advocacy to increase access to drugs and diagnostics for poor people especially in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The United Nations and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2001, one of the highest accolades he had received during his career as secretary-general. - Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization. - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages. - Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945) is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight", an editorial columnist, and host of a syndicated radio show. "Lou Dobbs Tonight" attracts CNN's second-largest audience after "Larry King Live", with about 800,000 viewers per night. Dobbs also lectures widely. - Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, … - Jagdish Bhagwati
Jagdish Bhagwati is a Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT (1991-93) and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO. Currently, he is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's High-level Advisory Group of the NEPAD process in Africa . - John Perkins
John Perkins (b. 28 January 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an activist and author. His best known book is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", an insider's account of exploitation or neo-colonization of Third World countries by a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. His 2007 book, "The Secret History of the American Empire", … - David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Sr. is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five deceased siblings are: Abby, John D. III, Nelson, Laurance and Winthrop. - Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). - Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. He has been described as Britain's best known social scientist since John Maynard Keynes. - P. Sainath
Palagummi Sainath (1954-) is an award winning Indian development journalist and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of Globalization in India.Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen described him as "one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger". - Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist focusing on modernity and globalization. Appadurai was born in Bombay, India in 1949 and educated in the United States. He was formerly a professor at the University of Chicago where he received his MA and PhD, and some of his most important works include "Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule" (1981), … - Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo (born July 21, 1948), is an Italian comedian and actor, who also works in theatres and television. - Roland Robertson
Roland Robertson lectures at The University Of Aberdeen in Scotland, United Kingdom. He is a sociologist and theorist of globalization. His theories have focused significantly on a more phenomenological and psycho-social approach than that of more materialist oriented theorists such as I. Wallerstein or Fredric Jameson. For Robertson, the most interesting aspect of our globalized (post?)modernity is the way in which, for people around the world, … - Branko Milanovic
Branko Milanovic is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department,where he has been working on the topics of income inequality and globalization. Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade. Since 1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics of transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies. - Kevin Bales
Dr. Kevin Bales is the world's leading expert on modern slavery and President of Free the Slaves, the US Sister organization of Anti-Slavery International (the world’s oldest human rights organization). He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. Bales's book "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy" published in 1999, … - Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím is the editor-in-chief of "Foreign Policy" magazine. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade, multilateral organizations, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization's unintended consequences. He is the author or editor of eight books, numerous essays, and publications; and his opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El País, Newsweek, Corriere della Sera, and many other internationally recognized publications. - Theodore Levitt
Theodore Levitt (b. March 1 1925, Vollmerz, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Germany - d. June 28 2006, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. He was also editor of the "Harvard Business Review" and an editor who was especially noted for increasing the Review's circulation and for coining the term globalization. - Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. - James N Rosenau
James N Rosenau is a politics scholar, specialized in the dynamics of world politics, international relations, and globalization. He has held the office of President of the International Studies Association, and remains active in said association. Rosenau has written 35 books, the most known being "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity" (Princeton, … - James N. Rosenau
James N. Rosenau is a former President of the International Studies Association. His scholarship and teaching focus on the dynamics of world politics and the overlap between domestic and foreign affairs. He is the author of scores of articles and more than 35 books, including "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity" (Princeton University Press, … - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - Ellen Meiksins Wood
Ellen Meiksins Wood (born 1942 in New York City) is an historian and critic who has made signal contributions to social thought in the Marxist vein, achieving international recognition. A scholar of classical and early modern political thought, she has extended her reach well beyond that scholarly field to contribute substantially to the understanding of the historical emergence of capitalism, the nature of modern imperialism, … - Nick Beams
Nick Beams is an Australian socialist intellectual and the current national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (formerly the Socialist Labor League). Beams has written extensively on the development of current world events, such as the collapse of the USSR, globalization and the ongoing conflict in Iraq. He is on the editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, which publishes online articles providing a Marxist analysis on historical, … - Lee Kyung Hae
Lee Kyung Hae was a South Korean farmer and activist who opposed globalization and protested for the local farmers and fishermen of his home country whose jobs were threatened. He was also president of the Federation of Farmers and Fishermen of Korea. (There are 3.5 million Korean farmers) Lee Kyang Hae was born in Jangsu, Jeollabuk-do, in what was then a united Korea. He graduated from Seoul Agricultural College in 1974 and pursued farming as a career, … - Helen Milner
Helen V. Milner or Helen Milner is a political scientist who has written extensively on issues related to international political economy like international trade, the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and trade policy. - Axel Dreher
Axel Dreher (born September 17, 1972) is a German economist. He earned a master's degree from the University of Mannheim in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2003. As assistant professor of economics at the universities of Mannheim, Exeter and Konstanz, he has worked in fields including: * the Public-Choice-Analysis of International Organizations, especially International Monetary Fund and World Bank *Economic Development, especially globalization *Public Economics, … - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a prominent postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. She became well-known after the publication of her influential essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" in 1986. In this essay, Mohanty articulates a critique of the political project of Western feminism in its discursive construction of the category of the "Third World woman" as a hegemonic entity. - Walter Lafeber
Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the nation’s most distinguished historians of United States Foreign Relations. The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him. - Elmar Altvater
Elmar Altvater (born 24 August, 1938) was Professor of Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University of Berlin, before retiring on 30 September 2004. He continues to work at the Institute, and to publish articles and books. As a student, Altvater studied economics and sociology in Munich, and attained a doctorate with a dissertation on "Environmental Problems in the Soviet Union". At the Otto-Suhr-Institute, he was active in socialist research groups, … - Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to post-Foucaultian political theory and feminist theory. In particular, she uses the ideas of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary continental philosophers to address problematics of political power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity. - Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke (born 1970 in Fenyang, China) is a Chinese film director. He has been often grouped with other "Sixth Generation" directors such as Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye. Jia first appeared on the Chinese film scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a string of internationally acclaimed independent features including 2000's "Platform" (站台, "Zhantai"), "Unknown Pleasures" (任逍遙, "Ren xiao yao"), and "The World". - Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!! - Barry C. Lynn
Barry C. Lynn is an American author and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C. He has written extensively on globalization, economics, and politics for such publications ranging from The Financial Times and Forbes to Mother Jones and the Harvard Business Review. He has been a reporter for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. Prior to joining New America in 2001, he was the executive editor of "Global Business", … - A. G. Hopkins
A. G. Hopkins (February 21, 1938-) is a British historian. Dr. Hopkins is a historian of imperialism, and has made significant contributions to the study of globalization and world history. In 1996 he was elected to the British Academy Fellowship. He has served as Professor of Economic History at the University of Birmingham; Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge (1994-2002), and was Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. - John Barnes
John Barnes (born 1957) is a prolific American science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is woven throughout his plots. The four novels in his Million Open Doors series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes holds a doctorate in theatre and for several years taught in Colorado, where he still lives. - Faisal Devji
Faisal Devji is historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He teaches at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Now a Canadian citizen, he was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, to a family of Indian ethnicity. His undergraduate education was at the University of British Columbia, … - Aminata Traoré
Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and is a former coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme. She is the current Coordinator of "Forum pour l'autre Mali" and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005.
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