Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is a fellow of the new economics foundation (nef) and co-author of ‘The Green New Deal’. In 2009 she was named one of the Ecologist magazine’s ‘visionaries’. She lectures widely on international finance and sovereign debt; and on the need to devise new economic policies to deal with the ‘triple crunch’ of the financial crisis; peak oil and climate change. She is also executive director of Advocacy International Ltd.
She blogs at her website: http://www.debtonation.org/ and also the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ and has contributed articles to a range of journals, the Guardian and the New Statesman on the current financial crisis.
She is editor of ‘The real world economic outlook’ (Palgrave 2003) which in 2003 accurately predicted “a seismic crisis” - the bursting of the credit bubble “in America, not Argentina”. (Cover of the New Statesman 1st September, 2003.) In 2006 she authored ‘The coming first world debt crisis’ (Palgrave 2006).
She has worked for more than fourteen years in the field of international debt and finance, and led the global ‘Drop the Debt’ campaign for the cancellation of the debts of 42 of the poorest countries – Jubilee 2000.