Ann Pettifor

Who is Ann Pettifor?

Ann Pettifor is a Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics, Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre at City University and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, London. She is best known for correctly predicting the Global Financial Crises in several publications including "Coming soon: The new poor” and her 2006 publication "The coming first world debt crises". Pettifor's background is in sovereign debt. She was one of the leaders in the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign which succeeded in writing off $100 billion of debts owed by 35 of the poorest countries. She is also Executive Director of a consultancy Advocacy International, which undertakes advises governments and organisations on matters relating to international finance and sustainable development. Ann Pettifor's recently published: Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance.