Ann Pettifor is an author and analyst who lectures widely on international finance and sovereign debt. She is currently executive director of Advocacy International Ltd and a fellow of the new economics foundation (NEF).
In 2008 she co-authored ‘The Green New Deal’, a pioneering report on the need for new economic policies to deal with the ‘triple crunch’ of the financial crisis; peak oil and climate change. Its sequel, ‘The cuts won’t work: how to finance the Green New Deal’ was published December 2009.
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 led the organisation Jubilee 2000, a global ‘Drop the Debt’ campaign for the cancellation of the debts of 42 of the poorest countries.
She blogs at her website: Debtonation and at the Huffington Post and has contributed articles to a range of journals, the Guardian and the New Statesman on the current financial crisis.
At the 2009 summer school, Ann gave a talk, with Tony Hillier about about how to go about investigating the economic crisis.