The Human Development Report Office today announced the members of the 2025 Human Development Report Advisory Board, an independent group of development experts and industry leaders tasked with guiding the writing and advocacy of the forthcoming report.
The Advisory Board, co-chaired by former President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla and A. Michael Spence, the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean Emeritus at Stanford University, will advise report authors on the thematic and policy considerations that will help world leaders better understand the challenges and benefits of technology and artificial intelligence for future human development.
| 1 | Laura Chinchilla | Former President of Costa Rica (Co-Chair) |
| 2 | A. Michael Spence | Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (Co-Chair) |
| 3 | Masood Ahmed | President Emeritus of the Center for Global Development |
| 4 | Deemah AlYahya | Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization |
| 5 | Kaushik Basu | Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University |
| 6 | Haroon Bhorat | Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town |
| 7 | Diane Coyle | Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Co-Director, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge |
| 8 | Gretchen Daily | Director, Natural Capital Project and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University |
| 9 | Renée DiResta | Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, previously Technical Research Manager at Stanford Internet Observatory |
| 10 | Marc Fleurbaey | Research Director, CNRS and Professor, Paris School of Economics; Associate Professor, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris |
| 11 | Sheila Jasanoff | Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School |
| 12 | Ravi Kanbur | T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. |
| 13 | Luis Felipe López-Calva | Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group |
| 14 | J. Nathan Matias | Assistant Professor, Cornell University Department of Communication |
| 15 | Arvind Narayanan | Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy |
| 16 | Rapelang Rabana | Co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide |
| 17 | Francesca Rossi | IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA |
| 18 | Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem | Head of the Department of Philosophy and AI Ethics Lead of the Center for AI Research, University of Pretoria |
| 19 | Zeynep Tufekci | Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University |
| 20 | Krushil Watene | Peter Kraus Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand |
| 21 | Meredith Whittaker | President of Signal |
| 22 | Linghan Zhang | Professor at the Institute of Data Law, China University of Political Science and Law |
For full biographies please see: 2025 Human Development Report Advisory Board Members
The 2025 Human Development Report Advisory Board will focus on identifying the key crossover issues between human development, technology, and artificial intelligence. The 2023-2024 Human Development Report, “Breaking the Gridlock,” focused on reimagining cooperation in a polarized world, while the 2021-2022 Human Development Report, “Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives,” explored uncertainty in a post-pandemic landscape.