Joseph Stiglitz is a renowned economist, named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

In 1979 Stiglitz was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. He was also a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Stiglitz is now a University Professor at Columbia University in New York, where he is also the founder and Co-President of their Initiative for Policy Dialogue. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the UN General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009 (published as The Stiglitz Report). Since the crisis, he has played an important role in the creation of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which seeks to reform the discipline so it is better equipped to find solutions for the great challenges of the 21st century.

Stiglitz has written many acclaimed books. His most recent books are The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future; Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, with Bruce Greenwald; The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them; Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe and Globalisation and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump.