Topic:  The Economic Crisis and the Global Economy: Lessons for Economic Theory and Policy

Venue: Auditorium

School of Public Policy & Management

Tsinghua University

Time:   4:30-6pm, Friday, March 20^th

Hosted by: Prof. CUI Zhiyuan

Speaker: Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz

          Columbia University

          Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001

Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University

Brief Biography of Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York, Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought and Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.