Joseph Stiglitz, special adviser to the president and former chief economist of the World Bank, will give eight lectures this spring as the first Joel Stern Faculty Scholar. Stiglitz’s lectures will focus on the topic International Economic Challenges for the New Economy. The Joel Stern Faculty Scholars Program in Finance and Economics was created through a generous donation by Joel Stern, managing partner of Stern Stewart & Co.
About the Researcher(s)
Joseph Stiglitz
Professor Stiglitz accepted a joint appointment to a chaired professorship at Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (in the Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs in the spring of 2001. He was the first Joel M. Stern Faculty Scholar at Columbia Business School from Fall 1999 until Spring 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the World Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. Prior to that, he served on President Clinton's economic team as a member of the U.S.