Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of economics at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network. As a long-time leading scholar in the field of economics, he has served as an advisor to such international organizations as the IMF, World Bank, UNDS, and OECD. Jeffrey Sachs built a reputation as a leading macroeconomist as he helped Bolivia navigate economic hardships in their transition from a dictatorship to a democracy. Thanks to his suggestions, its out-of-control inflation quickly stabilized to ten percent in just one year. Later on, he served as Special Advisor on Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, working on such problems as climate change and the destruction of biological diversity.

 The New York Times described his as “probably the most important economist in the world,” and TIME recognized him as one of “The 100 Most Influential People” in the world in 2004 and 2005. His publications include The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development, and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions.

 Jacques Attali is a French economist and futurologist who has served as special advisor to French President Mitterand and as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is also the President of the General Management Committee and the Supervisory Board of the Positive Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to alleviate poverty. With a plethora of experiences as a professor, politician, and government official, he guides many international organizations with his extensive knowledge and insights.

 He has also published Dictionnarie du 21e Siecle (Dictionary of the 21st Century) and other books with analyses and predictions of future society, giving him a greater platform and reputation as a futurologist. His foresight even allowed him to predict the onset of more pandemics decades before the current one. Called 'one of Europe's greatest scholars', Jacques Attali not only predicts our future but also suggests the best way to approach it.

 Esther Duflo is an American economist who was given tenure as an associate professor at the young age of 29. She had been interested in helping those less fortunate since she was a child, and she saw becoming an economist who advises governments as a way to fight against poverty.

 Traveling to more than forty countries for the past twenty years, she has researched poverty at the local level and presented solutions based on unique scientific experiments to tackle the difficult questions. For this experimental approach to alleviating poverty, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics at age 46 in 2019. She’s also an accomplished author of such internationally-acclaimed works as 'Poor Economics' and 'Good Economics for Hard Times'.

 Jean Ziegler is a practicing sociologist who has fought to eradicate famine for more than half a century. He is a former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, who served as the vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

 While serving as a member of the Swiss Parliament, he published a book, Swiss Whitewash, and exposed the realities of Swiss banks’ transactions of black money which he claims is the cause of the inequality in the world. Because of the book’s contents, he was stripped of the privilege of exemption from liability and was on the receiving end of many accusations and even death threats. Despite all the opposition that he faces, he continues to fight for those struggling with hunger and poverty.

 He served as the UN’s first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and was the vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He published many books revealing the realities of hunger and the inequalities caused by capitalism, including Hatred of the West, which received numerous awards for its scathing take on the failings of Western governments to address pressing social issues such as world hunger.

 Daron Acemoglu is an American economist, a professor of economics at MIT, and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, a prestigious award for excellent economists under forty. In <Why Nations Fail>, a co-authored book with James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu sheds light on the “decisive difference” that determines whether a country becomes rich or poor. Based on historical and modern evidence, this bestseller was praised as a new “The Wealth of Nations.” In his follow-up book, Narrow Corridor, he analyzed the political reasons causing that “decisive difference,” shedding more light on this fascinating topic.

 Professor Acemoglu has accumulated a wealth of knowledge of the economic and political power gap between nations, earning him praise from international scholars and leaders such as Jared Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, Neil Ferguson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.