Economic Writers & Contributors

Joseph E. Stiglitz
Professor at Columbia University. Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 & the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. Author of "Freefall: America, Free Markets", "The Sinking of the World Economy", "Globalisation and its Discontents" & "Making Globalisation Work".
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Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini, a.k.a. “Doctor Doom”, is chairman of Roubini Global Economics and professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world’s top global thinkers. This year, he was voted as the most influential economist in the world by Forbes magazine.
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David Smith
An English journalist who, when he's not exploring the social consequences of political actions, likes to write about cricket for some light relief.
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Stephen S. Roach
Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Lecturer at Yale University's School of Management and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Author of "The Next Asia".
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Raghuram Rajan
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. IMF’s Chief Economist from September 2003 to January 2007. Inaugural recipient of the Fischer Black Prize.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Professor of Economics & Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Founder & co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance.
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George Soros
Chairman of the Soros Fund Management. Famously known as “The man who broke the Bank of England”.
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Michele Lin
20 something avid reader, occasional writer, and full-time soccer aficionado.
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Gordon Brown
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2007. Prime Minister of the UK between 2007 and 2010. Inaugural 'Distinguished Leader in Residence' at New York University. Advisor at World Economic Forum
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO. Served as President and CEO of the Harvard Management Company for 2 years, while also working at the IMF for 15 years. In 2008, his book "When Markets Collide", won the Financial Times award for Business Book of The Year in addition to being named as the one of the best business books of all time by The Independent.
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Juan Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
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Jim Leitner, Nuno Monteiro, and Ian Shapiro
Leitner is President of Falcon Management. Monteiro and Shapiro are professors of political science at Yale.
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Henry Mintzberg
Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University
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Mario Blejer & Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Mario I. Blejer is a former governor of the Central Bank of Argentina and former Director of the Center for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England. Eduardo Levy Yeyati is Professor of Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution.
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CreditCardCompare.com.au
Australia’s free-to-use credit card comparison site.
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Javier Santiso
Javier Santiso is Professor of Economics at ESADE Business School and Director of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics. In 2011, he was named as one the most influential iberoamerican thinkers by Foreign Policy.
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Sanjeev Sanyal
Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist. Named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum at Davos. Author of of "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline"
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Jody Williams & Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Williams and Archbishop Tutu are both Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Williams is the founder and chair of the Nobel Women's Initiative, winning the Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Archbishop Tutu won the Peace Prize in 1984 for his work in opposing apartheid in South Africa, as well as his campaigns to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and racism.
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Lauren Goodrich
Senior Eurasia Analyst at Stratfor
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Gene Frieda
Global strategist for Moore Europe Capital Management.
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Andrew Sheng
Adviser to China's Banking Regulatory Commission and former Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
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Mitchell A. Orenstein
Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced and International Studies in Washington, DC.
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Sanjaya Baru
Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), and the author of The Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Performance.
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Kevin O'Rourke
Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College.
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Managing Director of the World Bank Group and former finance minister of Indonesia. In 2011, she was ranked as the 65th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.
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José Antonio Ocampo, Stephany Griffith-Jones, and Kevin P. Gallagher
José Antonio Ocampo is a professor at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia. Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Programs Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Kevin Gallagher is a professor of international relations at Boston University.
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Justin Yifu Lin & Apurva Sanghi
Lin is Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of the World Bank. Sanghi is a World Bank senior economist.
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Haruhiko Kuroda
President of the Asian Development Bank.
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Amy Griffin
Author who enjoys writing about social media, other marketing strategies, and getting an education.
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Jacob Zuma & Tarja Halonen
Co-Chairs of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.
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Emanuele Canegrati
Economic adviser to the Italian Senate and senior economist at the Magna Carta foundation.
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Mark Spitznagel
Founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, a California-based hedge fund.
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Devesh Kapur & Arvind Subramanian
Kapur is co-author of the official history of the World Bank. Subramanian is a senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development.
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Christine Lagarde
Current Managing Director of IMF. Served as France’s Minister of Finance from 2007 to 2011.
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Isam al Khafaji
Adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC and contributing editor of Middle East Report, Washington DC.
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Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath & Oleg Itskhoki
Farhi and Gopinath are Professors of Economics at Harvard University. Itskhoki is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University.
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Jay Lee
Standard Chartered Bank
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Jaroslaw Suplacz
ChangeValue.com
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Saifedean Ammous and Edmund Phelps
Columbia University’s Center for Capitalism and Society.
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Michael Pettis
Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management.
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Raymond Tham
Follow The Money
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QFinance
The Ultimate Financial Resource. http://www.qfinance.com
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George Friedman
Founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and CEO of Stratfor.
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Kemal Derviş
Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Former Turkish Minister of State for Economic Affairs. Head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from 2005-2009.
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Andrea Edwards
Managing Director, SAJE - Communications to the Core
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Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and the winner of the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007. He was also the founder chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and sat on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development
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OilPrice.com
The No. 1 Source For Oil Price Information
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Olivier Blanchard, José Viñals & Carlo Cottarelli
Blanchard is Chief Economist of the IMF. Viñals is Financial Counselor & Director of IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Cottarelli is Director of IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department.
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Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University. Director of Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Keith Timimi
The free-spirited family-man internet entrepreneur who fell in love with the study of economics. And congas.
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EconomyWatch
Always on the look out for the latest news to monitor the state of the world economy.
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Michael Mandelbaum
Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Co-author of "That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back".
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Eduardo Levy-Yeyati
Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. Professor of Economics & Finance at the School of Business of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Head of Latin American Research at Barclays Capital between 2007 to 2010. Senior Financial Sector Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at The World Bank from 2006 to 2007.
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Amar Bhidé and Edmund Phelps
Founding members of Columbia University’s Center on Capitalism and Society.
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Jan Schildbach
Banking analyst at Deutsche Bank Research covering European banking structures & trends in the Banking, Financial Markets, and Regulation team, as well as capital markets issues and developments at large individual banks.
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Scott Stewart
Vice-President of Tactical Intelligence at Stratfor.
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Heizo Takenaka
Former Japanese Minister of Economics, Minister of Financial Reform, and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. Current Director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University, Tokyo.
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Xavier Vives
Professor of Economics and Finance, Abertis Chair of Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, and academic director of the Public-Private Research Center at IESE Business School.
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Roger E. A. Farmer
Distinguished Professor of Economics and Department Chair at UCLA. Author of "How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" and "Expectations, Employment, and Prices".
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Yannos Papantoniou
Economy and Finance Minister of Greece from 1994 to 2001. Current President of the Center for Progressive Policy Research.
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David Caploe
Honors AB in Social Theory from Harvard and a PhD in International Political Economy from Princeton.
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Ng Ding Neng
Internet entrepreneur interested in economics, politics and all things social media.
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Ian Goldin and Geoffrey Cameron
Co-authors of “Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future”.
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Olin L. Wethington
Olin Wethington is a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, and is currently a member and director of the Council on Global Financial Regulation.
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Efraim Chalamish
Efraim Chalamish is an international economic law scholar and adviser, and the founder of the Global Center for Economic Development and Security.
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Reva Bhalla
STRATFOR's Director of Analysis and a senior analyst for the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America region.
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Peter Zeihan
Vice-President of Analysis for Stratfor.
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Bill Rylance
Founder & CEO of Watatawa
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Saifedean Ammous
Visiting Scholar at Center for Capitalism and Society in Columbia University & Lecturer in Economics at the Lebanese American University.
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Alice Briggs
Investment Writer
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Eric Culp
European-focused writer
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Anas F. Alhajji
Chief Economist at NGP Energy Capital Management
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Joseph J. DioGuardi
Certified public accountant and a Republican politician. Served in the House of Representatives representing the 20th Congressional district of New York from 1985 to 1989.
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Liz Zuliani
Diverse background in digital media, with experience working across large networks, to boutique sites and start-up ventures.
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