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Michael Spence to Co-Chair 2025 Human Development Report Advisory Board</span> </li> </ol> </nav> </div> </div> <h1 class="article-hero__title h2" data-viewport="true"> <span>Laura Chinchilla and A. Michael Spence to Co-Chair 2025 Human Development Report Advisory Board</span> </h1> <p class="article-hero__description" data-viewport="true"> </p> <div class="article-hero__post-date" data-viewport="true"> Posted November 11, 2024 </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section body article-body"> <div class="section__content grid-container"> <div class="grid-x"> <p>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.</p><p>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.</p><div align="center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;" border="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">1</td><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:solid;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Laura Chinchilla<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:solid;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Former President of Costa Rica (Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">2</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">A. Michael Spence<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">3</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Masood Ahmed<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">President Emeritus of the Center for Global Development<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">4</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Deemah AlYahya<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">5</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Kaushik Basu<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">6</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Haroon Bhorat<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">7</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Diane Coyle<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Co-Director, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">8</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Gretchen Daily<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Director, Natural Capital Project and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">9</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Renée DiResta<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, previously Technical Research Manager at Stanford Internet Observatory<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">10</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Marc Fleurbaey<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Research Director, CNRS and Professor, Paris School of Economics; Associate Professor, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">11</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Sheila Jasanoff<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" 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Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">13</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Luis Felipe López-Calva<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">14</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">J. Nathan Matias<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Assistant Professor, Cornell University Department of Communication<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">15</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Arvind Narayanan<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">16</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Rapelang Rabana<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">17</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Francesca Rossi<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader, TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">18</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Head of the Department of Philosophy and AI Ethics Lead of the Center for AI Research, University of Pretoria<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:#83CAEB;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;width:22.25pt;" width="40">19</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:135.0pt;" width="180"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Zeynep Tufekci<o:p></o:p></p></td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid #83CAEB;border-top-style:none;padding:0in 5.4pt;vertical-align:top;width:346.5pt;"><p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:6.0pt;">Henry G. 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