A New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation

Adriana is the Co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy. She previously worked as a Special Advisor to the President of Brazil, working with President Lula's core team on themes like the G20, the climate and biodiversity COPS, and reform of global governments. She also co-founded and served as Executive Director of Plataforma CIPÓ, a Brazil-based think tank dedicated to international cooperation and sustainable development from Latin American and Global South perspectives.

Dr Carolina Alves is an economist by training whose influences are rooted in intellectual traditions such as Classical Political Economy, Latin American Structuralism and Dependency Theory, Marxian and Kaleckian macroeconomics, and the new Cambridge Tradition, particularly the contributions of Joan Robinson and Tony Lawson. These foundations firmly place her within the field of heterodox economics. 

 Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and author of several books, including 'Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom' - as well as 'The Corona Crash: How the pandemic will change capitalism' and 'Stolen: How to save the world from financialisation'. She is the former economics commentator for the New Statesman, and a former Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy Research. She appears frequently in UK and international media.

Ms. Bárcena is Mexico's Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources since October 1st 2024, as part of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo's cabinet, whose administration prioritizes a human-centred ecological and environmental policy with a strong focus on sustainability and climate action. She has also held positions as Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2023-2024), Mexico's Ambassador to Chile (2022-2023) and Executive Secretary of the ECLAC.

Ha-Joon Chang has worked on a wide range of issues related to economic development, especially trade and industrial policies, productive capabilities development, institutions and development, global economic system, the history of economic development in today’s rich countries, and the political economy of development. Chang has advised numerous international organizations, national governments, civil society organizations, and corporations (both private-sector and public). 

Strategic Communications Director of the Global Fund for a New Economy and Founder of the Secure Energy Project. A leader in strategic campaigning, communications and advocacy with 15 years experience in climate, energy and development issues. Formerly at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Previously led Purpose Climate Lab and the program at SumOfUs. 11 years at Greenpeace in the UK and US.

She formerly directed the School of International Affairs of Anahuac University in Queretaro, Mexico where she managed the master’s degree in Social Responsibility, the Bachelor’s programme of International Affairs and developed a Bachelor’s degree in Socioeconomic and Ecological Transformation. In this same institution, she assumed roles such as Chief of Staff to the President and Provost, full-time professor and Coordinator of the Leadership Programme in Public Administration.

Brian Kettenring is the co-founder and co-President of the Global Fund for a New Economy, a philanthropic and field-building organization established in 2024 to advance the new economy sector. The organization carries out its mission by catalyzing the infrastructure of the field and by helping to mobilize a resource base commensurate to the task at hand. 

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University. She is a member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Italian Academy of Sciences Lincei.

Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova is Head of Macroeconomics and Political Development Department, UNCTAD, Geneva and Professor of International Political Economy at City University of London. She was Director of City Political Economy Research Centre – CITYPERC. Anastasia is a research specialist in International Political Economy. Her areas of interest cover finance and financial crises, globalisation and governance.

Prabhat Patnaik is one of India’s most eminent economists. He has a PhD from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar from India.  He was on the faculty of Cambridge University for some years before he returned to become the Sukhamoy Chakravarti Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from which he retired in 2010. 

Professor at the Institute of Economics at Unicamp (on leave), chief economist at the Global Fund for a New Economy and founder of Transforma Unicamp. Graduated in Economics from UFRJ with a master's and doctorate from Unicamp, he was director of the Brazilian Society of Political Economy (2014-2018), director of the Center for Studies on Economic Situation and Policy at Unicamp (2015-2018), visiting researcher at Unctad/UN in Geneva (2010).

Daniel Vockins is the Senior Vice-President for Programs and Strategy at the Global Fund for a New Economy (GFNE) and is a strategist with nearly 20 years of experience building the new economy field. Daniel is a founder of the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) in the U.K. and co-authored "Framing the Economy: The Austerity Story" establishing the NEON Communications Hub which books over 2,900 Radio/TV media appearances per year for New Economy leaders.