Ritu Sharma is the Co-Founder and President of Women Thrive Worldwide, a non-profit organization dedicated to shaping U.S. policy to help women in developing countries lift themselves out of poverty.
Karen Hansen-Kuhn is International Program Director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Her work has focused on bringing developing countries’ perspectives into public debates on trade, food security and economic policy.
Todd Tucker is research director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. He is an expert in issues dealing with the Central America Free Trade Agreement, job-offshoring, national security, the 2008 elections and other trade issues.
FPIF Senior Analyst, Mark Engler, is a writer based in New York City and senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. He is author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008). An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa,...
Foreign Policy In Focus columnist Walden Bello is a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and a senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South.
Robert Weissman is president of Public Citizen, a national nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. He is an expert on economics, health care, trade and globalization, intellectual property and regulatory policy, and issues related to financial accountability and...
Thea Lee is Policy Director and Chief International Economist at the AFL-CIO, where she oversees research and strategies on domestic and international economic policy.
Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil and energy expert. She is a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011), The Tyranny of...
Dr. Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and president of Just Foreign Policy, an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy. He is also a weekly columnist for the...
David Ranney is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order (Temple University Press, 2003).