Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz is currently serving as Senior Vice-President for Development Economics and Chief Economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
Previously, Dr. Stiglitz served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers since June 1995, and was a member of the council and an active member of President Clinton’s economic team since 1993. Dr. Stiglitz is on leave from Stanford University, where he is a Professor of Economics. He was previously a professor of economics at Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College, Oxford.
As an academic, Dr. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics - "The Economics of Information" - which has received widespread application throughout the field. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of technical change and other factors that contribute to long-run increases in productivity and living standards. Dr. Stiglitz is also a leading scholar of the economics of the public sector.
In 1979, the American Economic Association awarded Dr. Stiglitz its biennial John Bates Clark Award, given to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contributions to economics. The work of Dr. Stiglitz has also been recognized through his election as a fellow to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
The Raúl Prebisch Lectures were instituted in 1982 by Mr. Gamani Corea, the then Secretary-General of UNCTAD, to honor Dr. Raúl Prebisch, UNCTAD’s founding Secretary-General. The first lecture was given by the late Dr. Raúl Prebisch himself. The second one was by the late Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, on the occasion of UNCTAD VI (Belgrade, 1983), the third by Dr. Saburo Okita of Japan, on the occasion of UNCTAD VII (Geneva, 1987), the fourth by Academician Abel G. Aganbegyan, one of the principal economic advisers of the Government of the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of UNCTAD (Geneva, 1989). The fifth lecture was jointly given by Dr. Bernard T. Chidzero, Senior Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development of Zimbabwe, Mr. Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, and Mr. Enrique Iglesias, President of the Inter-American Development Bank, on the occasion of UNCTAD VIII (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 1992). The sixth lecture, held on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of UNCTAD in Geneva in 1994, was delivered by Mr. John H. Dunning, Professor of international Business at the State University of New Jersey, USA. The seventh lecture was held on the occasion of the ninth session of UNCTAD in Midrand, South Africa, in 1996, and delivered by Mr. Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, USA. The most recent in the series, the eighth, was held in Geneva, 1997. It was delivered by Mr. Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA.
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Entrance: Portail de Pregny, porte 40.
