As nations seek to confront overlapping challenges—climate breakdown, stagnation in development pathways, and the fracturing of trade norms—the need for active, coordinated, and context-sensitive industrial policy has become increasingly clear. The meeting brought together leading thinkers across development economics, industrial policy, environmental economics, and political economy to address these questions in both global and regionally specific contexts.
Attendees:
- Yann Algan — Director, HEC Institute
- Basani Baloyi — Programme Director, Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)
- Laura Barbosa Carvallo — Director, Economic and Climate Prosperity, Open Society Foundations
- Haroon Bhorat — Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town
- François Bourguignon — Emeritus Professor, Paris School of Economics
- Bilge Erten — Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Northeastern University
- Isabel Estévez — Co-Executive Director, i3T
- Daniela Gabor — Professor, SOAS University of London
- Jayati Ghosh — Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Ian Goldin — Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
- Tetsuya Harada — Chief Representative for Europe, JICA France Office/JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
- Cameron Hepburn — Professor, University of Oxford
- Arjun Jayadev — Professor, Azim Premji University
- Haruko Kamei — Director General, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
- Surbhi Kesar — Development and Political Economist, SOAS University of London
- Toru Kobayakawa — Professor, Nihon University
- Amir Lebdioui — Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE), University of Oxford
- Savannah Lucas — Program Manager, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University
- Alfonso Medenilla — Head of Climate Action and Green Transition, ECDPM
- Filip Milosavljevic — Postdoctoral Scholar, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University
- Akbar Noman — Senior Fellow, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University
- Mario Pezzini — Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow, Lab Avanza Foundation (Madrid); Former Director General, OECD Development Centre (Paris)
- Gabriela Plump — Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Columbia University
- Gabriela Ramos — Co-chair, Task Force on Inequalities and Social Financial Disclosure; Former Assistant Director General, UNESCO
- Vera Songwe — Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
- Francesco Saraceno — Deputy Department Director, OFCE – Research Center in Economics of Sciences-Po
- Joseph Stiglitz — Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD); University Professor, Columbia University
- Solomon Haddis Teklehaymanot — Research Fellow JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
- Fiona Tregenna — Director, UNU-MERIT
- Luis Vassy — Director, Sciences Po
- Laurence Wilse-Samson — Lead Economist, Oxford Economics
The papers written by members of the task force will be published in 2027.