AURUM SPEAKERS BUREAU - Key Persons


A GROUNDBREAKING AUTHOR

Above all, Joseph Stiglitz is best known for writing more than a dozen popular and highly influential books. These include the groundbreaking Globalization and its Discontents (2002), which has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide and inspired a sequel, Globalization and its Discontents Revisited (2017). His most recent books are People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019) and Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity A celebrated academic, influential public servant, and immensely popular public speaker, Joseph Stiglitz understands the problems and promise of the global economy and discusses them in clear, vivid terms.

A PRIZE

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  • WINNING ACADEMIC CAREER
In 1979, Stiglitz won the prestigious John Bates Clark Award, given to the field's most influential economist under 40. His work on the economics of information earned Stiglitz the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. Since beginning his career as a professor at Yale in 1970, Stiglitz has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and MIT. He was also the Drummond Professor and a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Presently, he is a University Professor at Columbia, where he founded and continues to lead the school's Initiative for Policy Dialogue.

Alastair Campbell

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  • Writer, Communicator & Strategist. Former Spokesman for Tony Blair

Alondra de la Parra

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  • Music Director, Famous Mexican Conductor & Leadership Expert

Andreas Weigend

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  • Director, Social Data Lab & Former Chief Scientist, Amazon

Andrew Winston

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  • Green Business Expert & Founder of Winston Eco - Strategies

Babak Hodjat

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  • CTO AI at Cognizant and Co - Founder and CTO Sentient Technologies

Carly Fiorina

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  • Founder & Chairman, Unlocking Potential Former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett - Packard ( 1999 - 2005 ) First Woman to Lead a Fortune 20 Company

Chan Kim

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  • INSEAD Professor of Strategy. Co - Author of Blue Ocean Strategy. One of the Brightest Business Thinkers of Our Generation

Chris Valasek

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  • Principal Autonomous Vehicle Security Architect & Renowned ‘White Hat' Hacker

Clayton Christensen

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  • Leader

David Li Daokui

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  • Economist Director

David Meerman Scott

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  • Marketing Strategist
Marketing Strategist; Entrepreneur; Investor and Advisor to emerging companies; Bestselling Author

Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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  • Chairman & CEO Magic Johnson Enterprises, NBA Hall of Fame All - Star, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

James Clear

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  • Bestselling Author of Atomic Habits Founder of Habits Academy

Jared Diamond

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  • Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Bestselling Author of Collapse, and Upheaval

Jorge Valdano

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  • General Manager of Real Madrid CF ( 2000 - 2004 & 2009 - 2011 ) Elite Coach and Football Legend

Malala Yousafzai

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  • Co - Founder of Malala Fund & Nobel Laureate

Margaret Heffernan

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  • International Media Executive, Entrepreneur & Best - Selling Author of Willful Blindness & Women on Top

Paul Polman

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  • CEO Unilever ( 2009 - 2019 ) . Bestselling Author, Net Positive. Sustainability Expert & UN Global Goals Champion

Philip Rosedale

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  • CEO, Co - Founder & Creator of High Fidelity & Second Life Metaverse Pioneer

Richard Branson

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  • Entrepreneur, Founder and President of the Virgin Group. Philanthropist and Adventurer

Roman Krznaric

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  • Bestselling Author of Empathy, the Good Ancestor & Carpe Diem Regained. Public Philosopher

Rosie Rios - Treasurer

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  • Treasurer

Seth Mattison

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  • Expert on Workforce Trends and Generational Dynamics

Shade Zahrai

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  • Leadership Strategist

Simone Heng

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  • Specialist

Steven Van Belleghem

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  • Professor, Expert

Suneet Singh Tuli

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  • Founder & CEO, Jeotex ( Formerly DataWind ) . Social Innovator and Disruptor

Suzanne Lee

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  • Designer

Vanessa Van Edwards

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  • Founder of Science of People and Bestselling Author