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Professor

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Columbia University
Economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
1983

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (U.S. president’s) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university’s highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. In 2011, Stiglitz was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz’s work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics, and globalization. He is the author of numerous books and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and ProfitsRewriting the Rules of the European EconomyGlobalization and Its Discontents RevisitedThe Euro, and Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy.