Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor at Columbia University, teaching at its Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, and the School of International and Public Affairs. He is Founder and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD). He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2001 and was a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Stiglitz received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded annually to the American economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the subject. He chaired the UN Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, created in the aftermath of the financial crisis by the President of the General Assembly. He is former Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank and was Chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, held the Drummond Professorship at All Souls College Oxford, and has also taught at M.I.T, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. He is the author most recently of The Road to Freedom. Economics and the Good Society (2024), and The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; and Freefall. In 2011, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
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