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).
She is the co-author of many books including 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. Ann also edited ‘The real world economic outlook’ (Palgrave 2003) which accurately predicted the bursting of the credit bubble that lead to the global financial crisis.
Ann has worked for over 14 years in the wold of international debt and blogs at Debtonation as well as at the Huffington Post. She contributes 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 investigate the economic crisis.