The Globalist

John West is executive director of the Asian Century Institute.

Heidi Strebel works as a researcher for the Global CEO Center at IMD

Jefferson Morley is the author of “Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835.”

Economist George R. Tyler is the author of “What Went Wrong” and “Billionaire Democracy: The Hijacking of the American Political System” and is a former Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary. Follow him @georgertyler

Ellis Mnyandu is the Founder and CEO of Candid Media in South Africa.

Guillermo de la Dehesa is chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Pawel Kowalewski is a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum advisory board.

Michael Braungart is a chemist and the founder of the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg, Germany.

Christoph von Marschall is Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the German daily “Der Tagesspiegel,” published in Berlin.

Friedbert Pflüger is visiting professor and Executive Director of the European Center for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College London in the Department of War Studies.