Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers 1995-7 and
Chief Economist at the World Bank 1997-2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia
University teaching in the Department of Economics the School of International and Public
Affairs and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt
Institute and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He won the
Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling author of Globalization and Its
Discontents The Roaring Nineties Making Globalization Work Freefall The Price of Inequality
and The Great Divide all published by Penguin.
