Re-Define

Re-Define is a non-partisan, international think tank that advises policy-makers on financial system reform, economic policy, development and environmental finance. Their work is split between long term oriented public policy development and providing immediately implementable public policy solutions to specific current problems. Since formation it has predominantly focused its efforts on assisting the EU and member state governments navigate the European financial crisis of 2012 - 2013.^[1]

About

Re-Define is currently working on projects relating to:

Financial system reform and regulation
EU and global economic governance
The development impact of the financial crisis and new financial regulations
Tax-havens, fiscal deficits, new sources of tax revenue, lack of transparency in finance, responsible finance
Environmental finance, green growth and green financial systems
Financial sector taxation^[1]

Their work and commentary is regularly featured in leading international print, television, and online media including, among others, The Financial Times,^[2] The Wall Street Journal,^[3] The New York Times,^[4] BBC,^[5] Bloomberg Television ^[6] and The Guardian.^[7]

Re-Define is led by Sony Kapoor,^[8] an expert in international finance and development. Sony has a background in investment banking and derivatives trading and has also worked with multilateral organisations such as the UN and the World Bank, governments including those of Norway and Germany, and civil society organisations such as Christian Aid and Oxfam. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has been elected as Young Global Leader^[9] by the World Economic Forum and a Young European Leader by EuropaNova and Friends of Europe. Sony is an alumnus of the London School of Economics, the University of Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi.

Eric Beinhocker – Executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Peter Bofinger – Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
Willem Buiter – Chief economist at Citigroup
Paul De Grauwe – Head of the European Institute at London School of Economics (LSE)
Heiner Flassbeck – Chief economist (chief of macroeconomics and development) at UNCTAD
Charles Goodhart – Professor at LSE
Michael Hoffman – Senior economist in the Center for Economics at the US Government Accountability Office
Robert Johnson - Executive director of economic policy at the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Anatole Kaletsky – Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
John Kay – Financial Times columnist and visiting professor at LSE
George Magnus – Senior economic advisor at UBS Investment Bank
John Monks – General secretary of the European Trade Union Conference
Kevin O'Rourke – Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford
José Antonio Ocampo – Former UN undersecretary-general for Economic and Social Affairs
Avinash Persaud – Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd.
Vicky Pryce – Senior managing director at FTI Consulting
Raj Thamotheram - President of the Network for Sustainable Financial Market
David Webb – Head of Department of Finance at LSE

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