Kai Koddenbrock
University BielefeldKai Koddenbrock is Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at Bielefeld University. His research explores the global monetary and financial system, economic sovereignty in the Global South, and the legacies of colonialism in international political economy. He coordinates research networks on money and development and is active in interdisciplinary debates on postcolonial theory, economic transformation, and global justice. His work connects academic inquiry with political and economic alternatives.
Ndongo Samba Sylla
International Development Economics AssociatesNdongo Samba Sylla is Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). A development economist and author, his work focuses on monetary sovereignty, democratic economic alternatives, and critiques of neoliberalism in Africa. He has written extensively on the CFA franc, labor markets, and global economic justice. Ndongo is also known for his public engagement and commitment to popular education on economic issues across the African continent.
David Adler
Progressive InternationalDavid Adler is a political economist and Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International. A citizen of the US, France, and Australia, he works on the politics of internationalism—how unions, movements, and parties organize across borders. He previously advised Bernie Sanders and Yanis Varoufakis, and as a Rhodes and Fulbright Scholar, researched housing, development, and democracy across five continents. His writing appears in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Affairs.
Bruno De Conti
University of CampinasBruno De Conti is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Coordinator of the BRICS Network University – Economics. He holds a PhD from the University Sorbonne Paris-Nord and Unicamp. His research focuses on the international monetary system, the Chinese economy, and the BRICS. He has taught at institutions in France, Spain, Russia, Germany, Colombia, and China. His work bridges academic research and global economic alternatives rooted in South–South cooperation.
Peter James Hudson
The University of British ColumbiaPeter James Hudson is a scholar at the University of British Columbia. His research draws on Black Studies, political economy, and history to explore the long histories of Black dispossession under capitalism and the many forms of Black resistance to it. Through a transnational lens, his work examines the imperial and financial architectures that underpin racial capitalism, with a focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. He is committed to uncovering histories of struggle and solidarity within global Black radical traditions.
Praveen Jha
Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityPraveen Jha is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he also founded the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies. His research focuses on the political economy of development, especially labour, agriculture, and public finance. A founding member of the Agrarian South Network and co-editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, he is the author of Labour in Contemporary India (OUP, 2016).
Yan Liang
willamette UniversityYan Liang is the Peter C. and Bonnie S. Kremer Chair Professor of Economics at Willamette University. She specializes in Modern Monetary Theory, China's political economy, and development finance. A Research Associate at the Levy Institute and Senior Fellow at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, she publishes widely in heterodox economics. Yan is also a regular media commentator and serves on the boards of several academic associations, including as past president of the Association for Institutional Thought.
Bafta Sarbo
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in DeutschlandBafta Sarbo is a social sciences student and activist whose work focuses on the intersection of Marxism and anti-racism. She serves on the board of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (Initiative of Black People in Germany), where she addresses issues such as racial profiling, migration policy, and structural racism. Her political engagement centers on building alliances between anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles in Germany and beyond.
Lisa Tilley
University of LondonDr Lisa Tilley is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research bridges political ecology and political economy, with a focus on race, gender, class, and colonial legacies. She studies extractivism and socioecological harm, particularly in Indonesia, and is currently completing a book on Liberation Ecology. Her work has appeared in Antipode, New Political Economy, RIPE, and more. She has also co-edited several journal special issues on race, ecology, and the colonial dimensions of development.
Helen Yaffe
University of GlasgowHelen Yaffe is Professor of Latin American Political Economy at the University of Glasgow. She specialises in socialist planning, Cuban development, and alternatives to neoliberalism in Latin America. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Survived in a Post-Soviet World and has written widely on Cuba's economic model, biotechnology sector, and international solidarity. Helen is also a regular commentator in international media and contributor to documentaries on Cuba and socialist alternatives.
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