Dereje Alemayehu is currently the Executive Coordinator of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. He has an MA in Development Studies and PhD in Economics (magna cum laude) from Free University Berlin. From 1987 to 1998 he worked as a Lecturer at the Free University Berlin for development studies and African political economy. He worked in the NGO sector as country director in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Kenya. He served as Founding Chair of Tax Justice Network Africa from 2007 to 2014. Prior to taking the role of Executive Coordinator, he served as Chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice from 2014 to 2018. He has published two books on Africa’s development challenges and has authored several articles and book chapters on development policy, the role of the state in development, governance, accountability, tax and development, and illicit financial flows.
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Email: dereje@globaltaxjustice.org
Nathalie Beghin Holding a BA in Economics from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and an MA and a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the University of Brasília (UnB), Nathalie Beghin has been Policy Coordinator for Brazil’s Institute for Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc) for ten years. In 2022, she was elected co-chair of Latindadd–Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice. She worked for Brazil’s Ministry of Health and at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) on, among other issues, hunger and food and nutrition insecurity, poverty, racial equality, and social engagement. She was a policy advisor for Oxfam International in Brazil and, later on, headed the Oxfam office in Brazil. She was a member of President Dilma Rousseff’s team that designed and implemented the Brasil sem Miséria (Brazil without Poverty) national plan.
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Email: nathalieb@inesc.org.br; nathaliebeghin@uol.com.br
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET) at the National University of Río Negro (CIEDIS). Between 2014 and 2020 he was United Nations Independent Expert on Debt and Human Rights. He also worked as Sovereign Debt Expert at UNCTAD. He holds a Ph.D. in Law. He has published books and articles on finance and human rights.
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Francisco J. Cantamutto PhD in Social Science Research (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO México). Associate Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), based in the Southern Institute of Economic and Social Research (IIESS), National University of the South (UNS). Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UNS. Specialized in political economy of development, with emphasis on Latin America and sovereign debt issues. He is a member of the Sociedad de Economía Crítica, which aims to a pluralistic approach to economics, and is part of its journal’s editorial board, Cuadernos de Economía Crítica.
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Email: franciscojcantamutto@gmail.com
Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan-Dutch social anthropologist working for the Transnational Institute (TNI, an Amsterdam-based think tank), where he co-runs the Knowledge Hub Unit. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies of the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa. His research interests focus on public policy, climate politics and social justice issues. He holds a MA and a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS). His most recent books are Repensar lo Público.: Estado, Sociedad y Servicios Básicos en América Latina (2019) and Public Water and COVID-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings (2021), both co-edited with David McDonald and Susan Spronk.
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Email: chavez@tni.org
Laura Clérico is Law Professor for Constitutional and Human Rights Law, at the University of Buenos Aires and Honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg in Germany. She is also Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). She has written extensively on inequality and human rights and has recently served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court in cases about discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.
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Email: lauraclerico@yahoo.com
Mr. Danish is Programme Officer of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Programme of the South Centre. He is a qualified lawyer from India where he obtained a B.A. LL.B. (Honours) degree and a Diploma in International Trade and Business Law. He also holds a LL.M. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His work includes a wide variety of issues of high interest to developing countries, including reform of the international investment regime, business and human rights, global governance, the right to development and the promotion of South-South cooperation among others.
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Email: Danish@southcentre.int
Armando De Negri Filho, brazilian/italian medical doctor, born in Porto Alegre – Brazil in 1962. Specialist in Emergency Medicine with Masters’ Degree in Epidemiology; Public Health / Global Health and Health Diplomacy; and Clinical Management. Doctor in Sciences / Preventive Medicine, Health Systems and Policies. Worked as public health officer and advisor in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Guatemala, advising governments and social movements. Former General Coordinator of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES), Vice President of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (CEBES), General Coordinator of the Brazilian Network for Cooperation in Emergencies (RBCE), Coordinator of the Executive Committee of the World Social Forum on Health and Social Security (WSFHSS). Former Member of the Experts Mechanism of the Right of Development (EMRTD) of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Senior Researcher of the Center for International Relationships in Health (CRIS) of the FIOCRUZ Foundation /Brazil. International Specialist Advisor on Health Systems and Services of the Pan American Organization/World Health Organization in Mexico.
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Email: denegrarm@paho.org
Nicoletta Dentico is a journalist and a human rights advocate, with a long experience in disarmament issues, international cooperation and global health. In 1993 she started the Coalition to Ban Landmines in Italy and coordinated it until early 2000, when she took over as Director-General of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 2004 she joined the MSF Access to Essential Medicines Campaign and then Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) in Geneva. She worked as WHO consultant in Geneva and at EMRO in Cairo. From 2011 to 2014 she coordinated the Democratizing Global Health Coalition on the WHO Reform (DGH). She has published extensively on issues related to access to medicines and the right to health. From 2013 to 2019 she served as board member in the Italian Ethical Bank (Banca Popolare Etica). She currently directs the global health programme at Society for International Development (SID).
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Email: ndentico@sidint.org
Evelina Fokina is a Political Science student who is currently obtaining her Bachelor’s Diploma at The University of Rome, Tor Vergata in the Global Governance course in Rome, Italy. Throughout her studies, she has obtained her Overseas experience at the Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea (Aug 2022–Jan 2023) majoring in Political Science and International Relations. Before coming to Italy, she studied in Gothenburg, Sweden in order to obtain International Baccalaureate Diploma. In regards to high school education, she completed her studies in Saint Petersburg (Scool №27), and Petrozavodsk (Lyseum №1), and graduated with honors.
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Email: evelinafokina@mail.ru
Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague. She joined ISS in November 2011 after 23 years working at the Society for International Development as Editor of Development and programme director. She is series editor of the Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change and the ISS-Routledge Series on Gender, Development and Sexuality. She has published widely on critical development, post development, body politics and feminist political ecology. Her latest edited book Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections (2022) published by Palgrave can be downloaded for free at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3.
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Email: harcourt@iss.nl
Yuefen Li is Senior Advisor on South-South Cooperation and Development Finance.
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Email: li@southcentre.int
Ronald Mangani is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Malawi. He served as Secretary to the Treasury of the Government of Malawi from 2014 to 2017. He is currently Chairman of Old Mutual Malawi, and Director of First Capital Bank Malawi. Previously, he also served as director of the Reserve Bank of Malawi and six other enterprises and sat on the Monetary Policy Committee of the RBM. He is a founding member of the Economics Association of Malawi, a network member of the African Economic Research Consortium, and part of the global faculty of the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa.
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Email: rmangani@yahoo.com
Chiara Mariotti is Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer on development finance at Eurodad. She joined Eurodad in 2020 to lead work on IFI’s undue influence on developing countries’ policy and fiscal space. Before joining Eurodad, she was Inequality Policy Manager for Oxfam GB, leading their policy and global advocacy work on inequality. Previously, she was a researcher at the Overseas Development Institute, focusing on policy solutions to chronic poverty and combining field, qualitative and quantitative research. She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London and has taught heterodox and political economy in British universities.
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Email: cmariotti@eurodad.org
Dante Maschio Graduate in Environmental Sciences and MSC in Renewable Energies and Sustainability. Member and activist of Engineering Without Borders (Associació Internacionald'Enginyeria Sense Fronteres-ESF) since 2015. Secretariat member of the European Water Movement. He is also a member and activist in other social movements related to water justice such as Water is Life platform (Aigua és Vida) and Barcelona local water group (Moviment per l'Aigua Pública i Democràtica a l'AMB). He currently works in ESF campaign "Water a right not a commodity" focused on basic services, human and environmental rights.
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Email: dante.maschio@esf-cat.org
Bhumika Muchhala is a political economist and senior policy advisor at the Third World Network and PhD candidate in political economy at The New School. She has 20 years of experience in analysis, advocacy, campaigning and public education on the international financial system, sustainable development, feminist economics, climate justice, colonial histories, and decolonial theory and praxis. Bhumika is engaged in advocacy in the UN intergovernmental negotiations and conferences, the International Monetary Fund, and the G20, and has collaborated with developing country governments, international civil society and social movements and academics. In the context of the UN, she has contributed to the outcome and content of the UN conference on the global financial crisis, the Sustainable Development Goals and Financing for Development conference between 2009 and 2016. She has been an expert consultant with various UN agencies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Women, and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Her doctoral research focuses on examining structural inequalities in the global political economy through an intersectional approach between decolonial theory and dependency theories. She has published articles in journals such as World Development, Third World Quarterly, and Nature, and teaches graduate seminars in ‘Global Political Economy of Development’ and ‘Global Environmental Policies and Politics.’ She is of Indian origin, grew up in Indonesia and is now based in New York.
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Email: bhumika.muchhala@gmail.com
Arthur Muliro is the Deputy Managing Director at the Society for International Development (SID). He has been at the forefront of SID’s work in East Africa and on Scenarios and is also an Associate Editor of Development.
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Email: amuliro@sidint.org
Adebayo Olukoshi is Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has previously served as Director for Africa and West Asia at International IDEA, Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, and Executive Secretary of the African Social Science Council, CODESRIA. His research focus is on the interface of governance and development in a global comparative context.
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Email: adebayo.olukoshi@wits.ac.za
Oliver Pahnecke is a part-time PhD candidate at Middlesex University, London, where he researches sovereign debt and human rights under the supervision of Prof. William Schabas. He works as a rule of law expert for international missions and as a consultant for technical co-operation and finance.
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Email: O.Pahnecke@mdx.ac.uk
Quim Perez He has studied Humanities and Economics. Activist for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation and the defense of rivers for 25 years. Co-founder of Aigua és Vida, Red Agua Pública, Movimiento Europeo del Agua, Alianza Contra la Pobreza Energética, Ecologistas en Acción Confederal and Catalonia. He is currently an activist of Aigua és Vida. Platform of Catalan organizations working for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation and for the good ecological status of water bodies.
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Email: quimperez62@gmail.com
Míriam Planas MSC in Chemical Engineering with a specialization in water treatment and sustainability. Member and activist of Engineering Without Borders (Associació Internacional d'Enginyeria Sense Fronteres-ESF) since 2005, where she has worked since 2016 in the Campaign "Water a right not a commodity". Spokesperson of the platform "Aigua és Vida (AEV)", a platform which brings together environmental and HRTWS movement to guarantee good state of water ecosystems and HRTWS in Catalonia, and for the citizen initiative of water promoted in 2018 in Barcelona. Member of the Red Agua Pública and the European Movement for Water. She is part of the executive and consultant commission of the "Associació de Municipis i Entitats per l'Aigua Pública" and of board of the Global Water Partnership Alliance (GWOPA) that depends UN-Habitat.
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Email: miriam.planas@esf-cat.org
María José Romero is Policy and Advocacy Manager on development finance at Eurodad. She joined Eurodad in 2012 and her role involves research, advocacy and monitoring policy developments at the global and European levels. Before joining Eurodad she worked at the secretariat of the Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice (Latindadd) on tax justice and development finance. While in Uruguay, her home country, she was for five years Coordinator of the IFIs Latin American Monitor project at the Third World Institute (ITeM), focusing on policy analysis on development finance. She is a PhD candidate in International Development at SOAS University of London and holds a Masters’ Degree in political science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay.
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Email: mromero@eurodad.org
Crystal Simeoni is a Pan African feminist activist working on macro level economic issues. She currently serves as the Director of Nawi—Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (The Nawi Collective). In her role as director, Crystal curates the work of the collective towards contributing to building a feminist community in Africa of individuals and organisations working on influencing, analysing, deconstructing and reconstructing macroeconomic policies, narratives. The collective also works on reimagining alternatives through an intersectional Pan African feminist lens. Before this she was head of Advocacy with a focus on Economic Justice at FEMNET and was the Policy Lead of the Tax and the International Financial Architecture at TJN-A before that.
She is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics.
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Email: csimeoni@nawi.africa
Lavinia Steinfort is a political geographer and activist. As a researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) she is working on public alternatives such as (re)municipalisation of public services and just transitions towards energy democracy. Lavinia co-implemented the mPOWER project that facilitated peer learning among more than one hundred European energy transition municipalities and coordinates international Energy Democracy alliance. Lavinia co-edited The Future is Public: Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services, Public Finance for the Future We Want and One Treaty to rule them all about the Energy Charter Treaty. Lavinia also published the article Communal Performativity—A Seed for Change on the solidarity of Thessaloniki’s social movements in the diverse fights against neoliberalism (Antipode, 2017).
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Email: l.steinfort@tni.org
Daniel Uribe is Lead Programme Officer of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change (SDCC) Programme of the South Centre. He has been extensively engaged in the research of the implications of International Investment Agreements in sustainable development for developing countries, and on the issues of business and human rights; he has also conducted research on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Mr. Uribe is a lawyer from Ecuador where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and holds a Masters’ Degree (LL.M.) in International Law (Cum Laude) from the Graduate Institute of Geneva. During his thirteen years of professional career, Mr. Uribe has earned experience working for the Republic of Ecuador, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society institutions. This has allowed him to understand public policy concerns from diverse perspectives, as an advantage to forge strategic synergies to achieve common objectives towards sustainable development and international cooperation.
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Email: Uribe@southcentre.int
Ella Weber is an Undergraduate in Global Governance at the Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. She is majoring in Political Science, Law and History and currently pursuing her Overseas semester in Taichung, Taiwan to expand her education outside of the European boundaries. During her internship at the Society for International Development (SID) in Rome, she organized at Tor Vergata, together with co-author Evelina Fokina and the SID team, an intergenerational dialogue around the concept of development which has been transposed into the article found in this issue of the Development Journal—her first publication.
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Email: ella.weber00@gmail.com.
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