Theme: “Meet SDGs” High-End Forum No.2 Inequality, Euro Crisis, and Globalization in the Era of Trump
Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001), Professor of Columbia University
Chair: Xue Lan, Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Time: March 21, 2018, 17:30-19:00
Venue: Auditorium Hall, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Language: Chinese-English Simultaneous Interpretation
Host: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Organizer: Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University
Speaker Biography:
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 (US 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 Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro, Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy and The Great Divide.
