Amar Bhattacharya is Director of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24). The G24 was established in 1971 as a representative body of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of developing countries with the objective of helping to articulate and support the position of developing countries in the discussions of the IMF, World Bank and other relevant fora. Mr. Bhattacharya is therefore closely involved in the ongoing discussions on the impact of and responses to the global economic and financial crisis, including the reform of the Bretton Woods institutions. Prior to taking up his current position, Mr. Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. His last position was as Senior Advisor and Head of the International Policy and Partnership Group in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. In this capacity, he was advisor to the President and Senior Management and focal point for the Bank’s engagement with key international groupings and institutions such as the G7/G8, G20, IMF, OECD and the Commonwealth Secretariat, including on the reform of the aid as well as international financial architecture. He has published widely in both fields. Mr. Bhattacharya is an Indian national who completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Delhi and at Brandeis University and his graduate study at Princeton University. Mr. Bhattacharya is a member of the Board of Directors of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition.

Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program, and Coordinator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship and International Visitors Programs at American University Washington College of Law, where he specializes in international economic law. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. Professor Bradlow is a member of the Roster of Experts for the Independent Review Mechanism at the African Development Bank, Research Associate of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and a member of the Board of Directors of ILEAP (International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty) and of the Governing board of the African Law Institute. His current scholarship focuses on the international financial institutions, creative financing for development, international legal aspects of sustainable and equitable development, and the legal aspects of debt and financial management. He has worked as a Consultant to the World Dams Commission, MEFMI (The Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa), Pole-Dette, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the MacArthur Foundation and served as a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Accountability of International Organizations and as an advisor to the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project. Prior to joining WCL, Professor Bradlow was a Research Associate at the International Law Institute and a consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, as well as an attorney in private practice. His publications include books and articles on international financial law, the international financial institutions, foreign investment, the World Bank Inspection Panel, globalization and its implications for global economic governance and the changing responsibilities of the World Bank and the IMF in the management of the global economy. Professor Bradlow holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Northeastern University and Georgetown University in the USA and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.

Jo Marie Griesgraber is the Executive Director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, a Washington-based international network of activists and researchers concerned with reforms of the international financial architecture. Previously, Dr. Griesgraber was Director of Policy at Oxfam America where she supervised advocacy programs on international trade, humanitarian response, global funding for basic education and extractive industries. Before that, she directed the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project at the Center of Concern, a Jesuit related social justice research center, where she worked on reform of the World Bank, regional development banks and International Monetary Fund. She has taught political science at Georgetown University, Goucher College and American University, and was Deputy Director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights lobby office. She chaired Jubilee 2000/USA's Executive Committee and edited, with Bernhard Gunter, the five volume Rethinking Bretton Woods series. Ms. Griesgraber received her Ph.D. in political science from Georgetown University and her B.A. in history from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor in the University of Waterloo's Department of Political Science. He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics.  His current research interests include: political economy of the current global financial crisis, international financial regulation, changing power in the international monetary and financial system, the history of international development, and North-South monetary relations in the postwar period. He is presently co-editor (with Jonathan Kirshner) of the book series Cornell Studies in Money and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of a number of international scholarly journals. He has also served as co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy and associate editor of the journal Policy Sciences. He has served as a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform and as a Governor of the Board for the IPE Section of the International Studies Association. He was founding director of the MA and PhD Programs in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He has been a Canada Research Chair and has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize (2007-2010) as well as the Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations (awarded by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs). He has authored several books including Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime (2006), The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (2003), and States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (1994). He is co-editor of Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (2009), The Future of the Dollar (2009), Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (2005), and Nation-States and Money (1999). 

Harold James, who holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, studies economic and financial history and modern German history. He was educated at Cambridge University (Ph.D. in 1982) and was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before coming to Princeton University in 1986. He is the Professor of History and International Affairs and the Director of Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society. His books include a study of the interwar depression in Germany, The German Slump (1986); an analysis of the changing character of national identity in Germany, A German Identity 1770-1990 (1989); and International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996). He was also coauthor of a history of Deutsche Bank (1995), which won the Financial Times Global Business Book Award in 1996, and he wrote The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001). His most recent works are The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001) and Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000 (2003). Forthcoming publications are: The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (2006) and Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels and Falcks (2006). In 2004 he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for writing about economics. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of World Politics. Professor James is currently working on a book on the history of the corporation in modern Europe, a study of the 1929 crash, and a study of the history of European monetary integration. Professor James regularly teaches courses on the history of financial crises, on 20th-century economic history, and on modern German history.

Dr. Louis A. Kasekende is the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank. He worked as part-time lecturer at Makerere University from 1988 to 1994. Then, he served as the Executive Director of Research and Policy at the Bank of Uganda, where he became Deputy Governor from 1999 to 2002. He was seconded to the World Bank (2002-2004), where he served as Executive Director for 22 Africa Group 1 countries, mostly from Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa, before returning to the Bank of Uganda as Deputy Governor from November 2004 until April 2006. From May 2006 to 2009, he served at the offices of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in Tunis, Tunisia, as AfDB's Chief Economist. During his tenure, he is credited for playing a leading role in the AfDB’s efforts to help African economies withstand the impact of the global economic crisis. In January 2010, Dr. Kasekende was re-appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda, to serve for the next five (5) years. Dr. Kasekende holds a Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester, U.K, and B.A. in Economics from Makekere University in Uganda.

Domenico Lombardi is president of The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Board Director of New Rules for Global Finance. Dr. Lombardi serves as a Managing Editor of the World Economics Journal and sits on the Advisory Boards of the Bretton Woods Committee, the G20 Research Group, the G8 Research Group and the Institute for International Affairs. Dr. Lombardi’s academic interests focus on the global economy and currencies, global governance, the G20, the G8, the reform of the international financial and monetary system and the establishment of a new aid architecture. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and has been referred to in Congressional hearings and government reports. In 2010, Dr. Lombardi was requested by the World Bank Group’s Board of Directors to conduct the Independent Review of the Group’s Oversight and Accountability Units. In 2009, he authored a Report to the IMF Managing Director on IMF Reform (“Fourth Pillar Report”). Dr. Lombardi has an undergraduate degree in Financial Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, and he did his postgraduate studies at Harvard University, The London School of Economics and Oxford University (Nuffield College), from which he holds a Ph.D. in Economics.

Jacques Mistral is Head of Economic Studies at IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) since September 2007 and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Prime Minister’s office) in Paris. He previously served as the Minister Financial Counselor to the Embassy of France in the United States (2001 to 2006). In 2008, he was elected President of the Political Economics Association – a society founded in Paris in 1846. Dr. Mistral was born in the city of Toulouse, in south-western France. He received his education at France’s Ecole Polytechnique, and he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris I (1977). Prior to his Washington assignment, he was Special Adviser to then Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry Laurent Fabius as well as a Member of the French Council of Economic Advisers. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Mistral held various executive positions in the AXA Group, successively: CEO Axa Marine and Aviation; EVP Asian Operations; EVP Human Resources (France); EVP Finance (France). During this period, he served as a member of the board of various Axa Companies (Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong). From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Mistral served as Economic Adviser to then-Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Prior to holding that position, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the CEPREMAP (leading Research Centre in Mathematical and Applied Economics). Dr. Mistral has had a long teaching career, as a Professor of Economics at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) from 1974 to 1992, at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1982-1996) and at the Ecole Polytechnique (1984-1994). He is the author of many articles in the fields of macroeconomics, economic policies, and international economy, and he recently published "La troisième révolution américaine" (Perrin, 2008), which was awarded the "Best economic book" prize in December 2008 and the Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in November 2009.

Bessma Momani is both a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) and an Associate Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Momani's current research examines International Monetary Fund reform through changing internal organizational behaviour and the history of IMF Executive Board seat allocation. In addition to specializing on the International Monetary Fund and its policies, Dr. Momani examines economic liberalization in the Middle East and has written on the U.S. Middle East Free Trade Area, Euro-Mediterranean trade initiatives, economic integration of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the future of petrodollars, and liberalization in Egypt. Dr Bessma Momani earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Western Ontario, Bessma Momani focused her post-doctorate research on organizational behaviour and seat allocation within the IMF. Her work in this area gained particular prominence following the global financial crisis in 2008, at which time she revisited the topic with new insight.

José Antonio Ocampo is a Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Director of Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs, and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In 2008-2010, he also served as co-director of the UNDP/OAS Project on “Agenda for a Citizens’ Democracy in Latin America”, and in 2009 a Member of the Commission of Experts of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably as United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Chairman of the Board of Banco del República (Central Bank of Colombia); Director, National Planning Department (Minister of Planning); Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO. Ocampo has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. Ocampo received his BA in economics and sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1976. He served as Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and of Economic History at the National University of Colombia, as well as Professor in the Advanced Program on Rethinking Development Economics at Cambridge University and Visiting Fellow at Universities of Oxford and Yale. He has received a number of personal honors and distinctions, including the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 1988 “Alejandro Angel Escobar” National Science Award of Colombia.

After working in various Kyrgyz research institutes, Djoomart Otorbaev became a visiting professor at Eindhoven University, The Netherlands, 1992-1996. In 2001 he was appointed as a special representative of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic for foreign investments, and at the same time he founded the Investment Round Table. Between 2002 and 2005 he served as a Vice-Prime-Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic with responsibility for economic development. From April 2006 Djoomart Otorbaev has served at the EBRD’s London headquarters as Senior Advisor for the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Pedro Solbes is currently second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance in Spain. Solbes has served in two ministries under Gonzalez; firstly as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries 1991-1993 and secondly as Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs in 1993-1996. In September 1999 he became the European Commissioner of Economic and Monetary Affairs--a particularly challenging post given the imminent entry into the European Union of 10 new member states. During his time in the European Commission, Solbes was charged with overseeing the rules underpinning Europe's single currency. From 1968-1973 he was Regional sub-delegate and delegate for Trade in Valencia and between 1973 and 1978 he formed part of the Spanish Mission to the European Community. From 1978 to 1979 he was advisor to President Calvo Sotelo on relations between Spain and the European Community. Pedro Solbes played an important part in the negotiations for Spanish accession to the European Community. In 1985, he was appointed by President Felipe Gonzalez Spanish Secretary of State for Relations with the EC. Pedro Solbes was born in Pinoso (a village in the province of Alicante).He has a degree in European Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Doctorate in Political Science and degree in Law  from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Ezra Suruma is a former minister of finance, planning and economic development, Government of Uganda. He is currently the senior presidential advisor on finance and planning in Uganda. His focus is on governance in governmental and financial institutions and its impact on stability and economic growth. He has a long career in government and the private sector, having previously served as secretary for economic affairs of the Uganda National Resistance Movement Secretariat, chairman / managing director of Uganda Commercial Bank, and director of research and deputy governor of the Bank of Uganda. Suruma was awarded “Finance Minister of the Year” in 2008 from The Banker (Financial Times, UK) for his role in overseeing high growth in Uganda while minimizing inflation. He received his Ph.D. in Economics (1975) from the University of Connecticut; and his M.A. in Economics (1972) and B.S. in Finance (1969) from the Fordham University. Prior to his government and private sector work, Suruma was a professor of economics and management science, teaching at Makerere University in Uganda and Florida A&M University.