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The Initiative for Policy Dialogue works to broaden dialogue and explore trade-offs in development policy by bringing the best ideas in development to policymakers facing globalization’s complex challenges and opportunities. We strive to contribute to a more equitably governed world by democratizing the production and use of knowledge.

Founded in July 2000 by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) stimulates a heterodox policy dialogue on major issues in international development. IPD is a global network of leading economists, political scientists, and premier academic and policy centers in the global South and North. We bring the issues of developing countries to academics and the fruits of academic research to policymakers.

Joseph Stiglitz

Co-President
jes322@columbia.edu

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor of finance and business at Columbia University, and chair of the University's Committee on Global Thought. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report

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Martín Guzmán

Co-President
mg3463@columbia.edu

Martín Guzmán served as Minister of Economy of the Republic of Argentina from December 2019 to July 2022. He is currently a Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. He is also a Professor of Money, Credit, and Banking at the National University of

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Gabriela Plump

Director, IPD; Managing Editor, Journal of Globalization and Development
gp2535@gsb.columbia.edu

Gabriela Plump has worked in the office of Professor Joseph Stiglitz since 2016 as the Program Manager, and now Director for IPD. She manages both the IPD and Columbia University grants that are housed in Professor Stiglitz’s office

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Andrea Gurwitt

Founding Editor of The Commons
andrea.gurwitt@gsb.columbia.edu

Andrea Gurwitt is founding editor of The Commons and editor of Joseph Stiglitz’s articles, opinion pieces, papers and books

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Savannah Lucas

Program Manager
sl5513@gsb.columbia.edu

Savannah Lucas is the Program Coordinator for IPD. She holds an MFA, specializing in long-form Journalism, from the Arthur L. Carter Institute at New York University and an honors degree in English Literature from the University of Cape Town

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Olamide David

Project Coordinator
od2296@gsb.columbia.edu

Olamide David (Ola) is a public policy researcher and Project Coordinator at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

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José Antonio Ocampo

Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at SIPA, Former Minister of Finance of Colombia
jao2128@columbia.edu

José Antonio Ocampo is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is Chair of the United Nations' Committee for Development Policy. He has been UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the

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Akbar Noman

Senior Fellow
an2143@columbia.edu

Akbar Noman is an economist with wide-ranging experience of policy analysis and formulation in a variety of developing and transition economies, having worked extensively for the World Bank as well as other international organizations and at senior levels of government

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Kevin Gallagher

Co-Editor, Journal of Globalization and Development
kpg@bu.edu

Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center. The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy relevant research for financial stability, human wellbeing, and the environment on a global scale

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Jeronim Capaldo

Co-Editor, Journal of Globalization and Development
jcapaldo@bu.edu

Jeronim Capaldo is an economist at UNCTAD and a Senior Scholar at Boston University’s GDP Center

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Anya Schiffrin

Director of Journalism Programs
acs76@columbia.edu

Anya Schiffrin teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She spent ten years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia, writing for a number of different magazines and newspapers. She was bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and wrote regularly for

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Stephany Griffith-Jones

Financial Markets Program Director
sgj2108@columbia.edu

Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies

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Arjun Jayadev

Senior Researcher

Arjun Jayadev teaches Economics at Azim Premji University and is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. His research combines quantitative and theoretical analysis of Finance, Development, Political Economy and Intellectual Property. Arjun has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also a Senior

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Eric Verhoogen

Co-Director of IPD's Industrial Policy Project

Eric Verhoogen is Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics. His main research area is industrial development–applied microeconomic research on firms in developing countries. This area overlaps with the fields of development economics, international trade, labor economics, and industrial organization. A recurrent theme in his work is the

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Mahmoud Mohieldin

Senior Researcher

Mahmoud Mohieldin is an economist with over 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He serves as the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the Sustainable Development Agenda and as Co-Chair of the UN Expert Group on Debt

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