Executive Committee
Biography
Jeffry Frieden is a Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He received a BA from Columbia College and his PhD from Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020); of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.
Biography
Frank Andre Guridy holds the Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professorship of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. He is also a Professor of History and the Executive Director of the Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia. Guridy holds a Ph.D. from University of Michigan, an M.A. from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. from Syracuse University. His research spans sport history, urban history, and the history of American social movements. His fellowships include the Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Ray A. Billington Professorship in American History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library. His book publications include: The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (University of Texas Press, 2021), Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (The University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America (NYU Press, 2010) and The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play (Basic Books, 2024).