''Policy Innovations'' was an

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devoted to news and analysis examining local solutions to global challenges facing today's interconnected world. It covered the future of cities, education, environment, food, health, gender, and technology. ''Policy Innovations'' was a global conversation about new ways of thinking. It also invited commentary on NGOs, social enterprises, companies and entrepreneurs such as

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-winner

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus, interim Yunus ministry, g ...

, who are driving change. ''Policy Innovations'' was a

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media venture housed at the

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in New York City. The project began in 2004 with funding from the

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, and the magazine component launched on September 6, 2006. Madeleine Lynn was the managing editor. The magazine closed in May 2016.

Contributors and Advisors

David Abshire David Manker Abshire (April 11, 1926 – October 31, 2014) was an American politician who served as a Special Counselor to President Ronald Reagan and was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 1983 to 1987. Abshire presided over ...

* Philip Auerswald * Harriet Babbit * Steve Clemons *

Jean-Marc Coicaud Jean-Marc Coicaud is a French and American legal and political theorist focusing on global issues, among numerous other topics. He is Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for ...

* Jayati Ghosh *

Nikolas Gvosdev Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev is a Russian– American international relations scholar. He is currently professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College and the former Editor of the bi-monthly foreign policy journal, ''The National Int ...

Sasha Issenberg Sasha Issenberg is an American journalist. His articles have been published in ''Philadelphia'', ''Slate'', the ''Washington Monthly'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Boston'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''Monocle, Politico, The ...

* Jomo K.S. * Sherman Katz *

Rebecca MacKinnon Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an American author, researcher, and Internet freedom advocate, and the co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus ...

* Neela Marikkar *

Moisés Naím Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Naím was the editor-in-chief of ''Foreign Policy'' magazine for 14 years (1996-2010). Sinc ...

Thomas Pogge Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (; born 13 August 1953) is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States. In addition to his Yale ...

Iqbal Quadir Husband yomigt(; born 13 August 1958) is a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur and academic. From 1993 to 1997, Quadir was the founder of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, a company aimed at expanding telephone access and creating economic opportunit ...

Mary Robinson Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senato ...

Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs ( ; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable develop ...

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...

* Jerry Sternin *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2 ...

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