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
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
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

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
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
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

Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Senior Minister, Singapore

Aromar Revi
Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

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

Quentin Grafton
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

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 of the 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 of the Chinese Society for Urban Studies

Mamphela Ramphele
Co-President of the Club of Rome, South Africa

Martha Rojas Urrego
Former Secretary-General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Ismail Serageldin
Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
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
