Herman: After almost 30 years in the United Nations Secretariat dealing with sovereign debt and other financial issues in development, including in relation to the 2002 Monterrey Summit on Financing for Development, Barry Herman is now a visiting senior fellow at The New School's new international affairs program.

Barry: Christian Barry is currentlyLecturer in philosophy and Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Pubic Ethics at Australian National University. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, where he was a Fellow at the Center for Law and Philosophy. Prior to joining the ANU, Barry was Editor of Ethics & International Affairs and served as a consultant and contributing author to three of the United Nations Human Development Reports.

Tomitova: Lydia Tomitova is currently pursuing a J.D. at Brooklyn Law School. Previously, she was Associate Editor of Ethics & International Affairs and Program Associate for Global Social Justice at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.