Andreas Antoniades is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is also the convenor of the Global Debt Dynamics Initiative, and the Principal Investigator in the SSRP project ‘Debt and Environmental Sustainability’. Ugo Panizza is Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland. He is also the director of the Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development, Director of the Centre for International and Monetary Banking Studies, and Editor in Chief of International Development Policy.