Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Olamide David is a public policy researcher and currently serves as a Project Coordinator at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD). She was an Adviser at the United Nations, New York, where she led and supported the negotiation of UN policy resolutions for the Mission of Nigeria on various platforms, including the General Assembly, G77 and China, African Union, and ECOWAS. She was an All Saints Scholar at the University of Leeds, U.K where she earned a Master’s degree in International Educational Management.

Savannah Lucas serves as the Program Coordinator for the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia Business School. She holds an MFA, specializing in long-form Journalism, from the Arthur L. Carter Institute at New York University and an honors degree in English Literature from the University of Cape Town. Savannah has a specialized research interest and published works in contemporary African literary and Diaspora studies.

Professor Stiglitz accepted a joint appointment to a chaired professorship at Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (in the Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs in the spring of 2001. He was the first Joel M. Stern Faculty Scholar at Columbia Business School from Fall 1999 until Spring 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the World Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. Prior to that, he served on President Clinton's economic team as a member of the U.S.

Meaghan Winter is a journalist who has covered healthcare, climate, politics, and democracy for national magazines. She is the author of the book All Politics is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the States. Meaghan has also worked as a writer, editor, and communications strategist for a range of research and advocacy organizations.