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The idea for a Reparations Loan was devised by Hugo Dixon, Lee Buchheit and Daleep Singh.

Hugo Dixon is commentator-at-large at Reuters. He is a journalist, political entrepreneur and philosopher. He was the founder, chair, and editor-in-chief of Breakingviews. Before setting up Breakingviews, he was editor of the Financial Times’ Lex Column. After Thomson Reuters acquired Breakingviews, Hugo founded InFacts, a journalistic enterprise making the fact-based case against Brexit. He was also one of the founders of the People’s Vote which campaigned for a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the EU.

Lee Buchheit is honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh Law School. During his legal career, he worked on more than two dozen sovereign-debt restructurings. He led the legal teams advising Greece in the 2012 restructuring of government bonds totalling more than €206bn (the largest sovereign-debt workout in history). He also advised the Republic of Iraq in the 2004–08 restructuring of $140bn of debt accumulated by the Saddam regime.

Daleep Singh is vice chair and chief global economist for PGIM, the $1.4 trillion asset management arm of Prudential. He previously served as US deputy national security advisor for international economics in the Biden administration, head of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, and assistant secretary for financial markets at the U.S. Treasury. He was one of the prime architects of G7 sanctions packages on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.