With a focus on global health and social policy, Merike Blofield’s research addresses the conditions under which governments produce more equity-enhancing policies. Her collaborative work has recently been published by Cambridge University Press (Social Protections during Times of Crisis), Oxford University Press (co-editor of the Latin America section of the Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management of Social Policy), The Lancet, and UNICEF. She has received awards for both research and institution-building. She is currently working on public opinion toward social protections in Latin America, the social determinants of reproductive health among vulnerable groups at the Colombia-Venezuela border, and policy efforts on domestic and gender-based violence. She directed gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Miami and the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (2020-2023).

She was a leading co-author in IPSP on the pluralization of families. She has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

As head of the Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées, a scientific research foundation founded in 2007, Olivier Bouin has been leading European and international collaborations for the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NETIAS) and for the global network of university-based insti-tutes (UBIAS). He was a founding member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities for which he served as a member of the Board (2015-2018) and then as the chair (2018-2021). He co-founded and has been co-chairing the World Pandemic Research Network since 2020. He was the executive director of the European Institute for Chinese Studies from 2019 to 2022

Marc Fleurbaey is associate professor at ENS-Ulm, and up to 2020 was Robert E. Kuenne Professor at Princeton University. He is the author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, Oxford University Press, 2013), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare (Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2008). He is a former editor of Social Choice and Welfare and Economics and Philosophy and is currently an associate editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is a lead author of its Manifesto for Social Progress (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He was a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Report, a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (2016-2021), and he has co-chaired task forces of the T20. He has been one of the initiators of the International Panel on Social Progress in 2014 and member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

Ravi Kanbur has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as chief economist for Africa. He is co-chair of the Food Systems Economics Commission. The positions he has held include: chair of the board of United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, member of the OECD High Level Expert Group on the Measu-rement of Economic Performance, president of the Human Development and Capability Association, president of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, member of the High Level Advisory Council of the Climate Justice Dialogue, and member of the Core Group of the Commission on Global Poverty. He is ranked in the top 0.5% of academic economists in the world.

He was co-chair of the scientific council of the International Panel on Social Progress and has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

Elisa Reis chairs an interdisciplinary lab on social Inequalities at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and a Fellow of the International Science Council (after three years as Vice-President of the Governing Board 2018-2021). She has received scholarships from the Brazilian National Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, among others, and has a long list of publications in Brazilian and foreign periodicals. She has taught as visiting professor at the University of California at San Diego, Columbia University, the MIT, and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich. She was secretary of the Brazilian Sociological Society and pres-ident of the National Association for the Social Sciences.

She was a member of the IPSP Steering Committee and has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

Ingrid Volkmer’ expertise focusses on globalized communica-tion and the implications on societies. Amongst her nume-rous publications in this area is Transnational Public Spheres and Global Policy (Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, 2019) and The Global Public Sphere – Public Communication in the Age of Reflective Interdependence (Polity, 2014). She collaborates closely with various United Nations organizations. She led a multi-country study on COVID 19 and Social Mediafor the World Health Organisation (2020), she collaborates with the UNESCO and was involved with the OECD in areas of digital policy debates, specifically in contexts of Artificial Intelligence policy. She held visiting positions at Harvard’s Kennedy School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Amsterdam.

She was a lead author on informa-tion technology in the first IPSP and has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

Margo Thomas is a thought leader for inclusive economic growth, gender equality, social justice, and social cohesion and supports initiatives increasing opportunities for the economic empowerment of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups globally. She has strong international expertise in private sector development, investment promotion, trade and competitiveness, and women’s economic empowerment. She has a long experience in the World Bank Group where she provided policy advice to some 50 developing, transitioning, and post-conflict governments. She led the independent secretariat of Ban Ki Moon’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. She is active in the Think20 Engagement Group of the G20 and previously as co-chair of the T20 taskforce on Women’s Economic Equity (2018); of the T20 taskforce on SDGs (2019); as a member of the COVID-19 Response Taskforce and of the T7 and T20 Social Cohesion Task Forces.

She has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.

Before joining the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2020, Marie-Laure Salles was founding dean of the School of Management and Innovation at SciencesPo Paris, a School she launched in 2016, and professor (Professeur des Universités) at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO), SciencesPo Paris. Her research interests include the role of social networks in the transnational diffusion of rules, practices and ideas, the historical transformation of capitalism and national institutions, as well as the dynamics of transnational governance. She has worked in particular on the reciprocal interactions between business and society, with a particular interest for the evolving nature of the social responsibility of firms and the structural inscription of a sustainability and justice agenda in economic and social policy at the national and international level.

She was a member of the Steering Committee of IPSP and has been a member of the IPSP Coordination Council since January 2023.