Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, United States. He served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably as United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Chairman of the Central Bank of Colombia; Director of the Minister of Planning; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO. Holds a PhD in Economic from Yale University, United States. Ocampo has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. 

Associate Professor, Tuscia University, Italy. Holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He has been a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex, extensively contributing to the literature on ecological economics and sustainable development. His scholarly papers have appeared in prestigious journals such as Research Policy, Ecological Economics, Social Indicators Research, and Oxford Development Studies, among others.