GUSTAVO PETRO

President of the Republic
of Colombia

ROSA YOLANDA VILLAVICENCIO

Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Colombia

GERMÁN ÁVILA

Minister of Finance
of Colombia

DANIEL ROJAS

Minister of Education
of Colombia

IRENE VÉLEZ

Minister of Environment
of Colombia

MARTA CARVAJALINO

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia

ANTONIO SANGUINO
Minister of Labor of Colombia

HAROL GONZÁLEZ DUQUE
Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Colombia

MARIA JOSÉ PIZARRO
Senator of Colombia

CLARA LÓPEZ
Senator of Colombia

MARÍA FERNANDA CARRASCAL
Member of the House of Representatives of Colombia

ERNESTO SAMPER
Former President of Colombia and former Secretary General of UNASUR

ADRIANA ABDENUR
Brazil

Academic and expert in international relations, currently works as a researcher on development and South-South cooperation issues.

ALBERTO GARZÓN
Spain

Economist and current political leader in Spain, former Minister of Consumer Affairs of Spain. His work focuses on market regulation, the defense of consumer rights, and criticism of the inequalities of the economic model.

ALICIA BÁRCENA

Mexico

Current Secretary of the Environment for the Government of Mexico and former Foreign Minister. Former Executive Secretary of CEPAL. Bárcena has led the agenda on equality, progressive structural change, and sustainable development in the region.

ANDRÉS ARAUZ
Ecuador

Economist specializing in financial systems and monetary policy, former director of the Central Bank of Ecuador, former minister, and former presidential candidate in Ecuador. Currently a researcher and leading voice in debates on monetary sovereignty in dollarized economies.

ANDRÉS CHIRIBOGA

Ecuador

He holds a PhD in Economic Sociology from Sciences Po-Paris. He is currently pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas of UNAM. His work focuses on the social studies of finance, particularly capital markets, debt, and dollarization processes. In recent years, he has also been involved in advocacy and diplomacy efforts related to debt cancellation and renegotiation for countries in the Global South.

CAMILA DE CASO

Brazil

Economist, Master’s candidate in Economic Development at UNICAMP. Program Coordinator for Guilherme Boulos’s municipal campaigns in São Paulo in 2020 and 2024.

CECILIA RIKAP
Argentina

Economist, Associate Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, and a leading global scholar in the political economy of digital capitalism. Author of Digital Dependency Theory: Sovereignty and Development in 21st Century Capitalism.

CHRISTIAN PINO
Ecuador

Lawyer, former Executive Secretary of the Commission for the Audit of the International Arbitration System (CAITISA), and external advisor to the Progressive International.

CLARA MATTEI
Italia

Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and the Founding President of FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. Clara was previously associate professor at The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her research contributes to the analysis and history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making.

DANIEL CHÁVEZ
Uruguay - Netherlands

Ikerbasque Professor at the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, and Director of the S-OIL project funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Specialist in energy, industrial policy, state-owned enterprises, and development theory, working with a wide range of social, economic, and political actors across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

DANIEL OSSA
Colombia

Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Denver. His research focuses on profitability, capital accumulation, technical change, income distribution, growth, and financialization, as well as business cycles and economic crises.

DAVID HARVEY

US - UK
(to be confirmed)

Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center of the University of New York and one of the most influential intellectuals in the critique of contemporary capitalism. His work has been fundamental to understanding the dynamics of accumulation, inequality, and urbanization.

FADHEL KABOUB

Tunisia

President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Development. His work emphasizes monetary sovereignty, guaranteed employment, and the ecological transition in the Global South.

GUILLAUME LONG

Ecuador

Academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, with a background in diplomacy and geopolitics. His work focuses on regional integration, sovereignty, and international political economy.

ISABELLA WEBER

Germany

Economist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a global leader in the debate on inflation, particularly regarding price regulation and supply dynamics.

JAYATI GHOSH

India

Economist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work focuses on global development, inequality, trade, and international finance. She has been an influential voice in debates on reforms to the global economic system and economic justice.

JOEL WAINWRIGHT

US

Professor at Ohio State University (USA), where he teaches political economy, climate politics, and Marxist philosophy. He is the author of the books: Decolonizing Development, Geopiracy, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future, and, most recently, The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis.

JOSÉ MIGUEL AHUMADA

Chile

Academic and former Undersecretary of International Economic Relations for Chile. A specialist in industrial policy and productive development, he has championed the debate on overcoming extractivism through structural reforms

KOHEI SAITO

Japan

Professor at the University of Tokyo, recognized for his contributions to contemporary ecological Marxism. His work has reinterpreted Marx through the lens of the climate crisis, highlighting the ecological limits of capitalism, degrowth, and inequality.

LUIS GODOY

Mexico

Economist and researcher with experience in international organizations and data analysis applied to development. He has worked with institutions such as UNDP, UN Women, and global academic centers.

MARCO ANTONIO ROCHA


Brazil

Renowned economist and professor at UNICAMP focused on industrial development. Specialist in industrial economics, science and technology policy, and productive development.

MATÍAS VERNENGO

Argentina

PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research (NSSR). He is currently Full Professor of Economics at Bucknell University and Director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP). He previously served as Senior Research Manager at the Central Bank of Argentina. His research focuses on development macroeconomics, international political economy, and the history of economic thought.

MARIA ANGÉLICA PRADA URIBE
Colombia

Deputy Director, Centro de Pensamiento Vida, Colombia. Lawyer and researcher in international economic law, holding master’s degrees in international law and anthropology. She has served in the Colombian government, including at the Colombian Mission to the OECD and the International Cooperation Office at Prosperidad Social. University lecturer and former congressional candidate for the Pacto Histórico coalition.

MARIO OSORIO
Colombia

Research fellow at CEPR and an expert in economic policy and international law, with a focus on international economic institutions—encompassing trade, investment, taxation, and finance. He is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and has held academic positions at New York University and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). His experience also spans the government sector, where he advised Colombia’s tax and customs administration. He holds a doctorate and master’s in law from Georgetown University.

MARK WEISBROT

United States

Senior Economist and Co-Director of CEPR. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press); is coauthor of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press); and has written numerous research papers on economic policy. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo.

MARTIN ABELES

Argentina

Specialist in macroeconomics, international finance, and economic development, with a distinguished academic career and extensive experience in national and international public policy. He is currently Professor of Economic Development at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM) and Regional Director for Research and Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean at the IDEAs network (International Development Economics Associates).

MARTÍN GUZMÁN

Argentina

Economist specialized in sovereign debt, debt crises, and economic development. He served as Minister of Economy of the Argentine Republic from 2019 to 2022. He is currently a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He is co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and directs its Sovereign Debt Management and Restructuring Program. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and a commissioner of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University.

MÓNICA BRUCKMANN

Peru - Brazil

Political scientist, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Former Research Director of the UNESCO Chair and Network on Global Economy and Sustainable Development and current Coordinator of CLACSO’s Working Group on “Geopolitics, Regional Integration, and the Global System.”

NICOLÁS GRIMBLATT
Chile

General Coordinator at i3T. Economist specializing in international trade and industrial policy. He has worked with institutions such as UN-ECLAC and Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SUBREI), and was part of the WTO Young Professionals Programme.

PABLO VOMMARO
Argentina

Executive Director of CLACSO. Professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. History professor, PhD in Social Sciences, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Sciences, Childhood, and Youth.

PEDRO ROSSI

Brazil

Economist and researcher at the Global Fund for a New Economy and professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His work focuses on macroeconomics, the financial system, and development in emerging economies.

RENÉ RAMÍREZ

Ecuador

Academic, former Minister of Science and Technology, former Minister of State Planning; a leading figure in the development of the “Buen Vivir” paradigm. His work integrates knowledge, planning, and social transformation.

SIMÓN GÓMEZ-AZZA

Colombia

Economist, philosopher, and political scientists from King's College London. Director of the Centro de Pensamiento VIDA. Member of the drafting committee for President Gustavo Petro’s government program, “Colombia Potencia Mundial de la Vida 2022–2026,” and part of the presidential transition coordination team. His work focuses on productive development, industrial policy, and political economy.

SERGIO CHAPARRO

Colombia

Economist and philosopher. Advocacy Lead at the Tax Justice Network and International Coordinator at Dejusticia. His work focuses on tax justice, climate justice, and global economic governance.

RIXI MONCADA

Honduras

Social scientist, rural teacher, university professor, and lawyer. Former presidential candidate in Honduras, former Minister of Finance, and former Minister of Defense.