YSI 2020 Plenary: New Economic Questions

George Akerlof

• Academic Council
• Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho

• Professor, FGV and the University of Brasilia

Alicia Barcena

• Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Stephanie Blankenburg

• Head, Debt and Development Finance Branch, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

​Orsola Costantini

• Economic Affairs Officer​, UNCTAD

Thomas Ferguson

• Research Director
• Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Rana Foroohar

• Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor, Financial Times
• Steering Committee, World Economic Roundtable

Jayati Ghosh

• Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Former Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Stephany Griffith-Jones

• Financial Markets Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University
• Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University

Martin Guzman

• Visiting Professor, Public Policy in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University

William Janeway

• Co-Founder
• Affiliated Member of the Economics Faculty, Cambridge University
• Senior Advisor and Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Rob Johnson

• President
• President, Institute for New Economic Thinking

Jakob Kapeller

• Professor of Socio-Economics with a focus on Plural Economics, Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Mervyn King

• Professor of Economics and Law, Stern School of Business and Law School, NYU

William Lazonick

• Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• President, The Academic-Industry Research Network

Justin Yifu Lin

• Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics
• Dean, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development
• Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University

Geoff Mann

• Senior Fellow
• Professor, Simon Frasier University

Mariana Mazzucato

• Grantee
• Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London

Shannon Monnat

• Associate Professor, Syracuse University

Julie Nelson

• Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Sanjay Reddy

• Associate Professor of Economics , The New School for Social Research

Michael Sandel

• Senior Fellow
• Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Julia K. Steinberger

• Professor of Societal Aspects of Climate Change, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne

Joe Stiglitz

• Co-Chair, Commission on Global Economic Transformation
• Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Adair Turner

• Senior Fellow
• Senior Fellow, Centre for Financial Studies (Frankfurt)
• Senior Fellow and Grantee, INET
• Chair, Energy Transitions Commission
• Former Chairman, United Kingdom Financial Services Authority

Yanis Varoufakis

• Former Finance Minister, Greece

Martin Wolf

• Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times