Joseph E. Stiglitz

Professor, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs & School of Business

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor of finance and business at Columbia University and chair of the University’s Committee on Global Thought. In 2001, Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. He was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has made major contributions to macro-economic and monetary theory, development economics and trade theory, public and corporate finance, the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (W.W. Norton, June 2001) has been translated into 35 languages, and has sold more than one million copies worldwide.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Anti-Trust Regulations, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Developing Economies, Economic Mobility, Family/Medical leave, Fannie/Freddie, Financial Markets, Healthcare, Housing Market Collapse, International Competition, Jobs, Labor Force, Living Wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, OSHA, Ratings Agencies, Retirement, Securitization, Social Investment, Social Security, Too Big To Fail, Trade, Unemployment Insurance, Unions, US Infrastructure, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• Co-Founder and Co-President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Present
• Co-Chair, Columbia University Committee on Global Thought, Present
• President, International Economic Association, Present
• Chair, International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, appointed by French President Sarkozy, 2008-2009
• Chair, Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, appointed by the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations
• Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1988–2001
• Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank, 1997–2000
• Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, 2000
• Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, 1995- 1997
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform
• Professor of Economics, Princeton University, 1979 – 1988