Richard Samans is Director of the International Labour Organization's Research Department and has served as its Sherpa to the G20, G7 and BRICS processes. He was previously Founder and Chairman of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board; a Managing Director of the World Economic Forum; and Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute. He served earlier as Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy and NSC Senior Director for International Economic Affairs in the second Clinton-Gore Administration, and as economic policy advisor to the US Senate Democratic Leader. He is the author of Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations (Palgrave Macmillan and ILO, 2024) and numerous other publications on international economic policy and corporate and global governance. He served on the UN Secretary General's Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work and UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System.