Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is one of the best known, most influential and most quoted intellectuals alive in the world today. Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute Technology, he is considered the founder of generative and transformational grammar. He is also famous for his politics. A fierce critic of media and American imperialism, he has published close to a hundred books, about two-thirds of which are political essays, and the other third on linguistics. He has also received numerous honorary degrees from the world's most eminent universities and been awarded many prestigious distinctions.
http://www.chomsky.info/

Ignacio Ramonet
A doctor of semiotics, film critic and, from 1990 to 2008, director of the French monthly, Le Monde diplomatique, Ignacio Ramonet is currently president of the association, Mémoire des Luttes. Instigator of the ATTAC movement and the World Social Forum of Porto Allegre, for which he coined the slogan "another world is possible", he is also founder and president of Media Watch Global. In addition to the many Monde diplomatique editorials he has penned over the years, he has published about fifteen books, the most recent of which is the essay, Le Krach parfait – Crise du siècle et refondation de l'avenir. He has earned many international awards for his journalism.
http://medelu.org/spip.php?auteur4

Normand Baillargeon
A professor of pedagogical sciences at l'Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Normand Baillargeon is also a member of the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Éducation et les Musées (GREM). In the '90s, he was a columnist for the Montréal daily, Le Devoir. Since then, he has written articles for various publications (À Bâbord, Le Couac, Le Monde libertaire, Siné Hebdo, Médiane, Québec sceptique, etc.), published a number of books (including Petit cours d'autodéfense intellectuel, Les chiens ont soif and L'ordre moins le pouvoir – Histoire et actualité de l'anarchisme) and is maintaining a blog site.
http://nbaillargeon.blogspot.com/

Susan George
Co-Founder and honorary president of the movement, ATTAC-France, of which she was also vice-president from 1999 to 2006, co-founder and president of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), Susan George has also served as president of l'Observatoire de la mondialisation. She helped lead the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and for democratic control of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She has published several dozen articles and many books, the most recent of which is La Pensée enchaînée : Comment les droites laique et religieuse se sont emparées de l'Amérique.
http://www.tni.org/george/

Omar Aktouf
A management professor at the business school (HEC) of l'Université de Montréal where he is something of a black sheep, founding member of the Centre humanismes, gestions et mondialisation, member of the Groupe d'études et de recherche sur le management et l'écologie (GERME), Omar Aktouf also belongs to several other scholarly societies. An internationally renowned lecturer, he has published dozens of articles and several books, including La Stratégie de l'autruche – Post-mondialisation, management et rationalité économique, and the recent Halte au gâchis: en finir avec l'économie-management à l'américaine.
http://www.hec.ca/profs/omar.aktouf.html

Oncle Bernard
Oncle Bernard, a.k.a. Bernard Maris, is an economist, economics professor (Université de Paris VIII), writer and journalist for, among others, Charlie Hebdo, where he is assistant editorial director. He also participates in radio broadcasts (France Inter), and television shows (I-Télé and France 5). He has published several books, including Lettre ouverte aux gourous de l'économie qui nous prennent pour des imbéciles, Anti-manuel d'économie, and the recent Capitalisme et pulsion de mort : Freud et Keynes, written in collaboration with Gilles Dostaler. He also has a blog site.
http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/
blog/b/blog.php?id=12

Michel Chossudovsky
An economist and political economy professor at the University of Ottawa, Michel Chossudovsky is the director of the Centre for Research on Globalization. A valued lecturer on the international stage, he is an advisor for developing countries, international organizations and the United Nations. He has published a multitude of articles on economics and geopolitics (for Le Monde diplomatique, The Emperor's New Clothes, L'Aut' Journal, etc.), as well as a number of books, including The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order and America's "War on Terrorism".
http://globalresearch.ca/

François Denord
As a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, where he is connected to the Centre de sociologie européenne, François Denord is also on the editorial committees of the magazines, Le Mouvement social and La Revue française de Socio-Économie. At the intersection of sociology and contemporary history, his writing is mainly about the connection between doctrine and economic policy. He has published articles in various periodicals, including Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales and Le Monde diplomatique. He has recently published a book entitled Néo-Libéralisme version française – Histoire d'une idéologie politique.
http://cse.ehess.fr/document.php?id=1062

François Brune
François Brune (real name, Bruno Hongre) is a writer, and was a high-school teacher until his recent retirement. He chose a pseudonym to distinguish his political writing from the didactic works he published under his real name. He has collaborated on a number of periodicals: Combat, Esprit, Le Monde, Le Monde diplomatique, La Décroissance, Casseurs de pub, etc. Co-founder of the association, Résistance à l'agression publicitaire (RAP), he has also published many critical books on advertising and dominant discourse, including Le Bonheur conforme – Essai sur la normalisation publicitaire and Les médias pensent comme moi ! Fragments du discours anonyme. He also has two blog sites, one under each of his names.
http://larbremigrateur-fb.blogspot.com/

Martin Masse
Martin Masse is a public-policy advisor and director of the libertarian cybermagazine, Le Québécois Libre. He was also director of publications at the Montréal Economic Institute from 2000 to 2007. He published the book, Identités collectives et civilisation : pour une vision non nationaliste d'un Québec indépendant and translated the international bestseller by Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism. From 2006 to 2007, he was political advisor to Canada's Industry minister, Conservative Maxime Bernier, notably on deregulation issues related to the Canadian telecommunications industry.
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/apmasse.htm

Jean-Luc Migué
An economist, Jean-Luc Migué is one of the greatest international experts on the theory of public choice. A professor at l'Université Laval and then l'École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP), researcher for the Bank of Canada and the Economic Council of Canada, he is also a Senior Fellow at the Fraser institute and the Montréal Economic Institute. He is member of the Mont Pèlerin Society and the Royal Society of Canada. He has also been a member of the Canadian Economics Association, the Société Canadienne de Science Économique, the Public Choice Society and the American Economic Association. He has published a dozen books, including, Étatisme et déclin du Québec and Santé publique, santé en danger, as well as numerous articles.
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/apmigue.htm

Filip Palda
Economist Filip Palda teaches at l'École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP). He earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago under the direction of Gary S. Becker ("Nobel" prize in economics). He is also Senior Fellow at the Fraser institute. He has published about fifteen books, including, Here the People Rule: A Toolbook for Reforming Democracy, as well as articles in various periodicals.
http://www.enap.ca/enap-fra/bibliotheque/
pub-personnel/publi-palda-filip.html

Donald J. Boudreaux
Donald J. Boudreaux is head of the economics department at George Mason University (Virginia), where he also teaches. With James M. Buchanan ("Nobel" prize in economics), he also directs the Center for Study of Public Choice. He has previously been president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He has published an impressive number of articles in various periodicals (Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, Freeman, American Spectator, the Washington Times, the Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, etc.), and frequently contributes to two different blog sites. He has recently published a book entitled, Globalization.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/
boudreaux/index.html