Dr. Pavlina R. Tcherneva is the Founding Director of OSUN-Economic Democracy Initiative and is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College and a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, NY. She wrote The Case for a Job Guarantee (2020) and has collaborated with policymakers from the US and abroad on designing and evaluating employment programs. She also worked with the Sanders 2016 Presidential campaign after her research on inequality had garnered national attention.

Tcherneva frequently speaks at Central Banks on Modern Monetary Theory and macro-economic stabilization policies. Her current research evaluates the impact of unemployment on growth, income inequality, and public health. In 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she developed an interpretation of Keynes’s policy approach to full employment for which she was recognized by the Association for Social Economics with the Helen Potter Prize (2012). You can contact her at tchernev@bard.edu

Jimena Hurtado is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, working on the history of economic thought in the XVIIIth century, the philosophy of economics, and political and moral philosophy. Products from this research, on the thought of Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, and Alexis de Tocqueville, have been published in several scholarly outlets, and inform teaching focused on the history of economic thought for undergraduate students, civic education and general education courses with a strong component of political and moral philosophy. Jimena has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris X and is co-editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, a publication of the History of Economics Society. You can reach her at jihurtad@uniandes.edu.co

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Dr. Syed Hashemi is a professor at the School of General Education at Brac University. He has had a long career in teaching, research, and managing programs for the poor. He taught Economics at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh, directed an anti-poverty research program at Grameen Trust, and set up a development institute. He has also chaired the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at BRAC University.

Hashemi spent nine years with CGAP at the World Bank, focusing on the financial inclusion of the poorest and ensuring a social performance bottom line in microfinance. He also designed and headed a successful multi-country program to develop new pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty through integrating safety nets, livelihood activities, and financial services. You can reach him at syedmhashemi@gmail.com

Sobhi Samour is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Al-Quds University, Bard College for Arts and Sciences in Jerusalem. He chairs the Economics and Finance Program, as well as the newly launched Social Thought, Economy, and Policy Program. Sobhi has a Ph.D. in economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). In 2017, he was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Fellow and postdoctoral research scholar at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, where he worked on a comparative political economy of indigenous labor under settler colonialism.

His main teaching and research interests include comparative economic development, political economy, economic history, and the Palestinian economy. He has published on Palestinian trade policy reform, Palestinian labor in Israel, and the Palestinian Authority’s neoliberal economic policy reforms. He has also worked as a consultant and researcher for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Program in Timor-Leste, and the Palestinian Economic Policy Research Institute. You can reach him at ssamour@staff.alquds.edu

Jeffrey Champlin received his Ph.D. from New York University and has taught at NYU, Middlebury, and Bard's campuses in New York, Berlin, and Palestine. His teaching and research focus on connections between literature, writing, the fine arts, philosophy, and political theory. Jeffrey's book, The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues, turns to Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist for surprising responses to political violence from voices on the margins of society. His current project, Romantic Revivalism, traces the epistemological and political effects of imagined acts of rebirth in Pietism, German Idealism, Romantic literature, and Hannah Arendt's philosophy of natality. He also teaches in Bard's Language and Thinking Program and at the Barenboim-Said Academy. You can contact him at j.champlin@berlin.bard.edu