The Honorary Committee is composed of 15+ high-level personalities that will give moral and political traction to the Panel activities. The first members are the following.
Amartya Sen
Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics.
Muhammad Yunus
Social entrepreneur
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
Hilary Charlesworth
Judge of the International Court of Justice
Hilary Charlesworth is a Judge of the International Court of Justice. She has been Harrison Moore Professor of Law and Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University.
Amadou Mahtar Ba
President of AllAfrica Global Media
Amadou Mahtar Ba is the co-founder and president of AllAfrica Global Media and serves on the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, the World Economic Forum’s Global Network of Councils, the African Democratic Institute, the Council ONE’s African Policy Advisor.
Sheila Jasanoff
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Carlos Lopes
High Representative of the Commission of the African Union
Carlos Lopes is a High Representative of the Commission of the African Union and a former secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He holds visiting positions at the Oxford Martin School and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance of the University of Cape Town.
Edgard Morin
French sociologist
Edgar Morin is a French sociologist (emeritus from EHESS) and intellectual.
Mustapha Nabli
Economist
Mustapha Nabli is a former Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, and former Minister of Planning and Economic Development of Tunisia. He has also served as the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank.
Helga Nowotny
Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science
Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich, and former President of the European Research Council.
Youba Sokona
Expert in the fields of energy and sustainable development
Youba Sokona is a Malian expert in the fields of energy and sustainable development, particularly in Africa. He has been the vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since October 2015 and a lead author at the IPCC since 1990.
Vera Songwe
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Africa Growth Initiative
Vera Songwe serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Africa Growth Initiative and was the first woman to head the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) at the level of Under Secretary-General.
Guy Standing
Professorial Research Associate
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all. He has held several leadership positions at the ILO.
Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera
Historian, political scientist, diplomat and 47th president of Costa Rica
B.A. in History from the University of Costa Rica (1979) and Master in Latin American Studies from Tulane University (1981). He retired as full professor of History and Political Science after teaching and researching for 40 years at the University of Costa Rica and other universities in the United States and Europe. He received Honoris Causa doctorates from universities in China, France, Corea, Costa Rica and the United States.
From 2020 to 2022 he was director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Solis was chef de Cabinet, ambassador of Central American Affairs and director general for Policy at the Costa Rican Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was also representative of the Ibero American Secretariat for Central America and Haiti (2010-2012). From 2014 to 2018 he was the 47th President of the Republic of Costa Rica.