Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz is the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his analysis of markets with asymmetric information and the recipient of the John Bates Clark Award Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field in 1979. Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, he is famous for his critical view of globalization and international institutions like the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. In 2000 Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He is currently teaching at Columbia University and advising the University of Manchester's World Poverty Institute.

Event - "Making Globalization Work"
Date - September 19, 2006
Press - Stern in the News

Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.

Event - "Making Globalization Work"
Date - September 19, 2006
Press - Stern in the News

Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein is professor of economics at the universities of Tel Aviv and Princeton. The Faculty of Economic Sciences confers an honorary doctorate on him for his outstanding research accomplishments in economics and game theory. Rubinstein's research on negotiation theory has provided new insights in labour economics and the theory of finance. In addition, his theoretical work has led to a better understanding of the way political coalitions are created. Rubinstein does not shy away from interdisciplinary research: he has worked on the interface between economics and law, built bridges between economics and information science, and published both on economic psychology and on language and economics.

Event - "Introduction to Economics of the Jungle: Some Thoughts on Teaching Economics"
Date - September 25, 2006

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati, currently University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO. Currently, he is a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Advisory Group on the NEPAD process in Africa . Five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays have been published by MIT press. The recipient of six festschrifts in his honor, he has also received several prizes and honorary degrees. Professor Bhagwati's latest book In Defense of Globalization was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 to worldwide acclaim.

Dr. William C. Dudley

Dudley was the Chief U.S. Economist at Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for economic and interest rate forecasting. Dudley has the unique distinction of having served as Robert Rubin's senior economic advisor for eight years. He is also a member of the technical consultants board to the Congressional Budget Office and a member of the Brookings Council at the Brookings Institute.

Stephen Roach

Stephen S. Roach is Managing Director and Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. In this role, he oversees the Firm's highly-regarded team of economists located in New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Mr. Roach has been widely recognized as one of Wall Street's most influential economists. His published research has covered a broad range of topics, with recent emphasis on globalization, the emergence of China, productivity, and the capital market implications of global imbalances. He is widely quoted in the financial press and other media, and his work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony, and on the op-ed pages of the world's leading newspapers.

Mr. Roach holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Joseph DeTrani

Joseph R. DeTrani is the Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks at the U.S. Department of State. Mr. DeTrani was an officer in the U.S. Air Force and worked in the private sector as an economist before joining the CIA as an economic analyst. After serving as the Executive Assistant to Director William J. Casey, Mr. DeTrani was the Director of European Operations, Director of Technical Services, Director of Public Affairs, Director of the Crime and Narcotics Center and Director of East Asia Operations. He spent a number of years living in East Asia and the Middle East--Taiwan, Seoul, Hong Kong, Tehran, Rangoon and Beijing.

Marti Subrahmanyam

Marti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of finance, economics and international business at New York University's Stern School of Business. Professor Subrahmanyam has been with NYU Stern for more than 30 years. His primary research areas include derivatives, asset pricing theory, and international finance. Professor Subrahmanyam has written numerous books including Capital Market Equilibrium and Corporation Finance and Recent Advances in Corporate Finance. In addition to his work at NYU Stern, Professor Subrahmanyam has been a visiting professor at many international universities including Manchester Business School, Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, and Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, Cambridge University and INSEAD.

Event - "The Transformed Indian Economy"
Date - April 24, 2007
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