Social networking
This house believes that society benefits when we share personal information online.
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- Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS
Director, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of JournalismJeff Jarvis is the author of "Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live" and "What Would Google Do?". He blogs at Buzzmachine.com and writes often for the Guardian. He directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
- Andrew Keen ANDREW KEEN
Internet entrepreneur and authorAndrew Keen is an internet entrepreneur who lives in Santa Rosa, California. He founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and, as president and CEO, built it into a popular first-generation online company. He is the author of "Cult of the Amateur", a 2007 international bestseller, which has been published in 17 languages. His new book, "Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorientating Us", will be published in America and the UK in June 2012.
- Mark Johnson MARK JOHNSON
Community Editor, The EconomistMark Johnson is The Economist's community editor. He manages and develops community features on The Economist online and across several social networks. He also writes about technology, politics and international relations, in print and on the web. Before joining The Economist in 2010 he worked in publishing, developing digital strategy at HarperCollins.
State capitalism
This house believes that state capitalism is a viable alternative to liberal capitalism.
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- Aldo Musacchio ALDO MUSACCHIO
Associate Professor of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business SchoolAldo Musacchio is an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy (BGIE) Unit and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2004. His current research project with Sergio Lazzarini, a professor at Insper business school in Brazil, looks at the new ways in which states intervene in the economy. His book, "Experiments in Financial Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2009), studies the mechanisms Brazilian firms used to follow high corporate governance standards before 1950, when the legal protections for investors were relatively weak. He is also developing a series of cases and articles looking at best practices in state-owned enterprises.
- Ian Bremmer IAN BREMMER
Founder and president, Eurasia GroupIan Bremmer is the founder and president of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk research and consulting firm, and currently teaches at Columbia University. He created Wall Street's first global political risk index and is the author of several books, including "The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations", which details the phenomenon of state capitalism and its geopolitical implications. He is a contributor to the Financial Times A-List and Reuters.com, and writes "The Call" blog on ForeignPolicy.com. He is also a panellist for CNN International's "Connect the World" and appears frequently in the media as a political risk expert.
- Adrian Wooldridge ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE
Management Editor and Schumpeter columnist, The EconomistAdrian Wooldridge is The Economist's management editor and writes the Schumpeter column. He was previously based in Washington, DC, as the Washington bureau chief where he also wrote the Lexington column. Previously he has been The Economist's West Coast correspondent, management correspondent and Britain correspondent. He is the co-author of "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea", "A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation", "Witch Doctors", a critical examination of management theory, and "The Right Nation", a study of conservatism in America. His most recent book is "Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and their Ideas have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse".
The UK and the EU
This house believes that Britain should leave the EU.
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- Daniel Hannan DANIEL HANNAN
Conservative member of the European Parliament for South East EnglandDaniel Hannan is a writer and journalist who blogs every day at www.hannan.co.uk. He has been a Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England since 1999, and is secretary-general of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. He speaks French and Spanish, and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free.
- Douglas Alexander DOUGLAS ALEXANDER
Shadow secretary of state and Labour MP, Paisley and Renfrewshire SouthDouglas Alexander is the shadow secretary of state and Labour member of Parliament for the Paisley and Renfrewshire South constituency. Between May 2001 and May 2010, he served in a wide range of ministerial positions including secretary of state for international development, secretary of state for transport and secretary of state for Scotland, minister for e-commerce, department of trade and industry; minister of state for trade, investment and foreign affairs, minister of state for Europe and was the UK’s governor to the World Bank between June 2007 and May 2010. Prior to entering Parliament in 1997, he practiced law in Scotland.
- Tom Nuttall TOM NUTTALL
Deputy and Europe editor, The Economist onlineTom Nuttall joined The Economist as deputy and online Europe editor in January 2010. Previously he worked as an editor at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank, and spent several years as a senior editor at Prospect magazine.
Women & work
This house believes that a woman's place is at work.
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- Linda Basch LINDA BASCH
President, National Council for Research on WomenLinda Basch is president of the National Council for Research on Women. She leads a US-based network of research, policy and advocacy centres that includes a corporate circle of major companies and a president's circle of academic leaders. She is an expert in women's leadership in business and on boards; women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and non-traditional fields; economic security; and gender/diversity in academia, society and the workplace. Her commentary has been featured in major media including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She serves on numerous boards, including Ms. Magazine, and is an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Christina Hoff Sommers CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
Resident scholar, American Enterprise InstituteChristina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining the AEI she was a professor of philosophy at Clark University specialising in moral theory. Her articles have appeared in publications such as the Journal of Philosophy, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard and the Atlantic. She is the editor of "Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life", a leading college ethics textbook, and the author of "Who Stole Feminism?" and "The War Against Boys". Her most recent book, co-authored with an AEI colleague, Sally Satel, is "One Nation Under Therapy". She has appeared in many television programmes, including "Sixty Minutes", "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show", and has lectured and taken part in debates on more than 100 college campuses.
- Barbara Beck BARBARA BECK
Special reports editor, The EconomistBarbara Beck joined The Economist in 1965 and held various editorial posts, mainly on the business side. In 1974 she became European editor, a position she held until 1980. From 1981 to 1991, she was secretary general of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, a bilateral, government-funded think-tank. For the next three years she was editor of International Management magazine. In 1993 she became head of communications, Europe, at Andersen Consulting. She then returned to The Economist in 1995 as special reports editor.
Carbon control
This house believes that climate-control policies cannot rely on carbon capture and storage.
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- Joseph Romm JOSEPH ROMM
Senior Fellow, American Progress and editor, "Climate Progress"Joe Romm is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and the editor of "Climate Progress", which Tom Friedman, a New York Times columnist, called "the indispensable blog" and Time magazine named one of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010". In 2009, Rolling Stone put him at 88 on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America". Time named him a "Hero of the Environment" and "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger". In 1997 he was acting assistant secretary at the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration and deployment of low-carbon technology.
- Barry Jones BARRY JONES
General manager for policy and membership, Global CCS InstituteBarry Jones is general manager for policy and membership at the Global CCS Institute with overall responsibility for the institute's work on CCS economic, policy, legal and regulatory issues, capacity development and membership relations. He has extensive senior executive experience in policy, research and delivering business services gained over many years in a number of Australian government departments and agencies. He has worked in the fields of energy and resources, climate change, tourism, industry policy, and small and medium-sized enterprise issues. His past roles include head of Enterprise Connect, chief executive officer of Invest Australia and head of the Bureau of Tourism Research.
- Simon Wright SIMON WRIGHT
Energy and commodities correspondent, The EconomistSimon Wright is the energy and commodities correspondent for The Economist's print edition, covering the oil and gas industry as well as mining, shipping, steel and big bits of infrastructure. He joined The Economist in 1989 as a researcher. Since then his roles have included stints as the letters editor, the world this week editor and writing about business and finance for The Economist online, as well as acting as deputy news editor for the newspaper's website.
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