Amanda Janoo is an economic policy expert, currently working as the Economics and Policy lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll).

With over a decade of experience working with governments and international development institutions around the world. Her work aims to build just and sustainable economies through goal-oriented and participatory policy design processes.

Prior to joining WEAll, Amanda worked for the United Nations and the African Development Bank as an industrial policy and structural transformation expert. As a Fulbright researcher, she explored the relationship between international trade and informal employment. She graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Development Studies and heralds from the green mountain state of Vermont, in the USA.

Andreas Lind is a senior advisor at the Danish climate think tank CONCITO. Here, he leads CONCITO’s work on planetary boundaries in CONCITO’s Global Division. Previously based in CONCITO’s Climate Future Lab, he has also worked on topics such as the green labour market, social acceptance in the Nordic countries, and Nordic pathways towards climate neutrality. 

Anna Schwenck is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department of the Freie Universität Berlin’s Institute for East European Studies and will be a fellow at the University of Trento and the University of Basel in 2026. She is particularly interested in how cultural understandings, be they locally specific or transnationally salient, enable and restrain political legitimation. 

Her recent monograph, Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia, is central to our symposium. For her novel research project, she investigates how under conditions of rising nationalism cultural consumption patterns are increasingly directed at gaining moral capital—alongside amassing cultural capital. The monograph was awarded with the ASA’s Mary Douglas Prize for the best book in the sociology of culture.

Cecilie is a senior advisor at the Danish climate think tank CONCITO’s Global Division, where she focuses on creating new solutions and developing new policies within the planetary boundaries. 

Trained as a human geographer, Friis has more than 10-years of experience doing research on land use changes, globalization and sustainability with a particular focus on distal connections in consumption and production of land-based products.

Dagan Cohen is the founder and creative director of CHANGENCY, a creative agency for societal change that connects forerunners in the public and private sectors to collaborate on creative solutions for urgent social and ecological issues. Dagan is also a leader of the Amsterdam Donut Coalition, an open network of people who utilize the Doughnut Economics model of Kate Raworth in Amsterdam and its metropolitan area. Amsterdam is one of the world’s first cities to officially adopt the Doughnut Economics model as a tool for transformational change. 

Dani Rodrik is an economist whose research revolves around globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy. His current work focuses on how to create more inclusive economies, in developed and developing societies. Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is co-director of the Reimagining the Economy Program at the Kennedy School and of the Economics for Inclusive Prosperity network. 

Daniela is Junior Professor for Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution in the Global and European Studies Institute, at Leipzig University, Germany. Her work lies at the intersection of historical sociology, energy and resource history, and critical theory of nature. She is especially interested in how energy economies have been shaped over time in both capitalist and socialist systems.  Her most recent research deals with the decarbonization of the electric grid, the theory and practice of Soviet energy planning, as well as early Soviet ecological thoughts.

Fabrizio Tassinari is the founding Executive Director of the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance, where he develops the overall strategic direction, the design and the policy programme of the school. The goal of the program is to create new forms of diplomatic training, suitable for an age of planetary poly crisis.

Tassinari, a political scientist, has a background in research and policy advice on questions of democracy, governance and international security, in and around Europe. Prior to joining the EUI, Tassinari served as Senior Researcher and Head of Foreign Policy Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen.

Greg Yudin is a Professor of Political Philosophy and Head of the MA Programme at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. His research focuses on democratic theory, with special attention to public opinion polling as a technology of representation and governance in modern politics.

He is the author of Public Opinion, or the Power of Numbers (European University at St. Petersburg Press, 2020). Yudin teaches political philosophy and social theory at both the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and the Higher School of Economics. He is also a frequent contributor to major Russian and international media outlets, including Open Democracy and Republic.

Ian Manners is a professor and the Assistant Head at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. With over thirty years of experience, Manners has dedicated his academic career to exploring questions of policymaking and international relations within the European Union. His publication, “Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?” (2002) is regarded as one of the most influential texts within European Studies and boasts the statistic of highest cited article in the Journal of Common Market Studies. His current research focuses primarily on normative power in the EU in terms of economy, ecology, society, conflict, and polity. Manners also leads research projects such as “Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics,” “Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis,” “Foreign Policies of European Union Member States,” and “Planetary Political Cinema.” 

James Quilligan began his early career as a program supervisor with the United States Labor Department in 1976. In the 1980s–1990s, he worked in various roles as monetary analyst, researcher, publicist, and speechwriter. During the 1990s–2000s, Quilligan served as a manager and speechwriter for international organizations. With his experience in asset value analysis, he became a monetary consultant for governments in the Middle East and Africa in this same period. In 2000, he began using carrying capacity metrics to calculate the thermodynamic value of monetary currencies within specific bioregions.

Currently James is also our co-host at the Center for New Critical Politics and Governance at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for 35 years, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She has authored and/or edited 21 books and 230 scholarly articles. She also writes regularly for popular media, including newspapers, journals and blogs.

Jeremy Morris is a British ethnographer and political anthropologist specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is Professor of Russian and Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. Notably, an interview with The Moscow Times in 2025 revealed that Morris is among the few Western scholars who continued conducting fieldwork in Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

His recent book, 2025: Everyday Politics in Russia —From Resentment to Resistance, uses rich ethnographic material to examine contemporary authoritarianism through the lens of micropolitics, understood not as miniature politics, but as the political dimensions embedded in the everyday practices, interactions, and conversations of ordinary life.

Johanna K. Bockman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. Her work spans globalization studies, economic sociology, urban studies, and East European Studies. Using comparative and historical approaches, she examines transnational dynamics, such as neoliberalisms, socialisms, and the non-aligned movement, beyond the confines of nation-state frameworks.

Her publications include Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism (Stanford University Press, 2011) and the recent article “The Origins of the Concept ‘Gentrification’ within Empire and Decolonization: Ruth Glass and Claudia Jones in London” (Journal of Urban Affairs, 2025).

Jonathan Blake is the Associate Director of Programs at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, California, where he leads research projects within the Planetary Program. With a background in political science, he has built a career focused on planetary politics, governance, ethnic conflict, and migration. He is co-author, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024) and the author of Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland (2019). He has held research roles at the RAND Corporation, the Columbia Global Policy Initiative, and the Chumir Foundation, and his work has appeared in outlets such as Noema—where he serves as Associate Editor—The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and various academic journals.

Jussi Parikka is a professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University where he is the co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research program. 

Parikka also holds an affiliation with University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art). His recent books include the co-authored Lab Book (2022), Operational Images (2023), and the co-authored Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (2024). 

Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation. She has also held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law in Hamburg. Her research focuses on the legal foundations of capitalism, global finance, corporate governance, and comparative law and she was a member of the board of directors (2011-2014) and a fellow (2019) of the European Corporate Governance Institute. 

She is widely known for her influential book The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (2019), which examines how legal institutions shape the creation and distribution of wealth. More recently, she also wrote The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It.

Marcel Fratzscher is a researcher, author, and columnist on economic and socio-political topics, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and Professor of Macroeconomics at Humboldt University Berlin. Among other things, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Association of the Euro50 Group. His work focuses on macroeconomics and financial markets, inequality, and the globalization and integration of Europe. He is a columnist for DIE ZEIT and regularly publishes commentaries in German and international media such as the Financial Times and Project Syndicate.

Michael Zürn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. His work focuses on global governance, international institutions, their legitimacy, and contestations of liberal-democratic orders. From 2019-2023, he was co-spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2004-2010 he served as Founding Dean of the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin). He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), ALLEA and the Academia Europaea. He received several prizes, among them the prestigious Berlin Science Award in 2021 as well as the Thomas Mann House Fellowship in Los Angeles.

Nils Gilman is Senior Advisor to the Berggruen Institute, Executive Editor of Berggruen Press, and Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine. 

Gilman has previously worked as Associate Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, as Research Director and scenario planner at the Monitor Group and Global Business Network, and at various enterprise software companies. 

Gilman is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004), Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011), and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024). He holds a Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate in History from U.C. Berkeley.

Or Rosenboim is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. She is a historian of twentieth century international political thought who published studies on the history of global and international thinking in Europe and the United States. 

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK). He works on critical theory, history of technology, aesthetics, and critical military studies. 

In addition to being lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and its book series (Duke UP), he co-edits with Jussi Parikka the books series Technicities (Edinburgh UP). His most recent book, co-authored with John Beck, is Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (Duke UP 2020).

Stefano Bartolini is an Associate Professor at the University of Siena, Department of Political Economy and Statistics. Here, Stefano teaches courses in political economy, social economy and the economics of happiness. Stefano has also written numerous articles in several international academic journals and essays, including the best-selling “Manifesto for Happiness”. Stefano’s primary research is concerned with the question: is it possible to integrate economic prosperity with the sustainability of environment, human relationships, leisure and happiness?

Vladimir Douglas Pacheco Cueva received his PhD in Political Economy from Griffith University in 2003 and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, where he teaches in the International Studies graduate program. His research focuses on social policy, governance, and sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on Latin America as well as Australia. Cueva’s recent work includes analyses such as “Anti-ideology in El Salvador? Continuities and Discontinuities in a Radicalized and Environmentally Fragile Country” and collaborative projects like “Economic Reconstruction in Chalatenango.”