The Commission is composed of experts, community leaders and practitioners from a broad range of science, policy and front-line practice expertise from all regions of the globe.

Members of the commission

Members

Co-Chairs

The Co-Chairs lead and set the direction for the Commission.

Mariana
Mazzucato

Professor at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General, World Trade Organization

Johan
Rockström

Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Senior Minister, Singapore

Lead Experts

The lead experts ensure that the messages of the Commission reflect and are backed by robust science and evidence. They coordinate the Analytics pillar, engaging a network of research teams that are comprised of researchers across various themes and institutions. The lead experts are tasked with curating the knowledge and developing new analytics and data connected to social and economic dimensions.

Quentin Grafton

Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Joyeeta Gupta

Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Aromar Revi

Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Commissioners

This group of eminent individuals provide critical reflection and ensure global relevance of the Commission (regional representation), inclusiveness (including youth, indigenous people), and capacity to reach out to communities of practice (local authorities, financiers, corporates, civil society).

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of the City of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra

Former Executive Secretary of CEPAL, Chile

LaToya Cantrell

Mayor of the City of New Orleans, USA

María Fernanda Espinosa

Former President of the UN General Assembly, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

Arunabha Ghosh

CEO, Council of Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi, India

Naoko Ishii

Executive Vice President and Director, Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo

Juan Carlos Jintiach

Advisor of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin, Ecuador

Qiu Baoxing

President, Chinese Society for Urban Studies

Mamphela Ramphele

Co-President, Club of Rome, South Africa

Martha Rojas Urrego

Former Secretary-General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Ismail Serageldin

Founding Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

Advisers

The Commission benefits from the support of six advisors from intergovernmental organisations. The advisors share relevant insight and experiences such as the constraints that national governments and multilateral institutions face that delay action – and ways to overcome those constraints. They advise on existing platforms that the Commission might connect to for societal dialogues or action.

Richard Damania

Chief Economist, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

Kathleen Dominique

Environment Directorate, OECD

Daniel Esty

Professor, Environmental Law and Policy, Yale Law School

Henk WJ Ovink

Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of The Netherlands

Usha Rao-Monari

Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Abebe Selassie

Director, African Department, International Monetary Fund

Co-Chairs

The Co-Chairs lead and set the direction for the Global Commission.

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor at University College London & Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General, World Trade Organization

Johan Rockström

Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research