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IPD is a collaborative effort among nearly 250 top economists, political scientists, policymakers, and
civil society representatives from the developed and developing world. Please see our Member Directory
for a complete list of our participants.
Joseph Stiglitz is the IPD President and Shari Spiegel is the IPD Managing Director.
Below are biographies of the IPD core team at Columbia University.
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| Joseph Stiglitz |
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| Jose Antonio Ocampo |
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| Stephany Griffith-Jones |
| Executive Director |
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| Akbar Noman |
| Senior Policy Fellow |
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| Shari Spiegel |
| Senior Policy Fellow |
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| Anya Schiffrin |
| Director of Journalism Programs |
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| Ariel Schwartz |
| Program Manager |
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| Sarah Green |
| Program Coordinator |
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| Eva Kaplan |
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Joseph Stiglitz |
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Joseph Stiglitz holds joint professorships at Columbia University's Economics Department, School of International and Public Affairs, and its Business School. He is co-chair of IPD's macroeconomics, CML, and Intellectual Property Task Forces.
From 1997 to 2000 he was the World Bank's Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist. From 1995 to 1997 Dr. Stiglitz served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of President Clinton's cabinet. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Stiglitz was previously a professor of economics at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College, Oxford.
As an academic, Dr. Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics -" The Economics of Information"- which has received widespread application throughout economics. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Stiglitz helped revive interest in the economics of technical change and other factors that contribute to long-term increases in productivity and living standards. Dr. Stiglitz is also a leading scholar of the economics of the public sector.
Dr. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He was also awarded the American Economic Association's biennial John Bates Clark Award in 1979. Dr. Stiglitz's work has been recognized through his election as a fellow to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy.
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Jose Antonio Ocampo |
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Jose Antonio Ocampo is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Professor Ocampo served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and head of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and has held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department, and Minister of Agriculture .
Professor Ocampo has also served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, the main think tank on economic issues in Colombia, Director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico of Universidad de los Andes, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, and Professor of Economic History at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has also been Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale Universities and lectured in many universities and conferences around the world.
Professor Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.
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Stephany Griffith-Jones |
| Executive Director |
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Stephany Griffith-Jones
Executive Director
Stephany Griffith-Jones is an economist whose areas of expertise include global capital flows to emerging markets, especially macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and international financial reform with special emphasis on regulation (Basel II, hedge funds and derivatives).
Prior to joining IPD, Professor Griffith-Jones was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex, United Kingdom and served as Senior Official at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission of Latin America (ECLAC), and as Head of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK). She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations, especially UNDP and ECLAC. She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile.
She has published many articles and written or edited 18 books on international finance and economic development, most recently International Finance and Development with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jan Kregel. She was recipient of Association of Latin American Financial Institutions prize for best essay on Latin America's international finance, and the Distinguished Czech Woman of the World Award (2006), granted by Charles University and Czech government.
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| Akbar Noman |
| Senior Policy Fellow |
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Akbar Noman is Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.
He was at the World Bank for much of the period, 1977-2003, where he held a variety of assignments. These included working on macroeconomic management, country strategies, trade policy, financial and private sector development, international economic trends and prospects, poverty, and labor markets. His regional foci included Africa, Asia and the transition economies in Europe and Central Asia.
During 1990-93, he served as Economic Adviser to Pakistan's Ministry of Finance and on the Prime Minister's Committee on Economic Policy. In 1981-82, he worked for the ILO's Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion based in Bangkok and in 1982-83 as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He was at the IMF during 1974-77. His work experience includes stints at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in 1972-73 and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in 1973-74.
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Shari Spiegel |
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Shari Spiegel is a Principal at New Holland Capital, PLC, an advisor to ABP. From 2002 through April of 2007, Ms. Spiegel was the Executive Director at IPD.
Ms. Spiegel joined IPD from Lazard Asset Management where she was a Director of Lazard LLC, the senior fixed income portfolio manager in charge of emerging market debt and foreign exchange, and member of the asset allocation committee for all fixed income products. She developed Lazard Emerging Income, a unique strategy for a diversified local currency fund launched in conjunction with the IFC.
Prior to joining Lazard in 1995, Ms. Spiegel spent several years working in Hungary. She was one of the founders of Budapest Investment Management Company, a subsidiary of Budapest Bank, which launched the first domestic investment funds in Hungary. She served as CEO from its inception until 1995. She was initially invited to Budapest in 1991 and worked as a foreign advisor to the national Bank of Hungary, where she concentrated on domestic capital market development, international debt structures, and currency valuation models.
Previous to her work in Hungary, Ms. Spiegel worked at Citibank and Drexel Burnham Lambert in fixed income research, cross-currency interest-rate-swap trading, and credit research. Ms. Spiegel has an MA in economics from Princeton University and a BA in applied mathematics and economics from Northwestern University. She is lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Co-Chair of IPD's Debt Task Force.
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| Anya Schiffrin |
| Director of Journalism Programs |
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Anya Schiffrin has worked as a financial and business journalist for eight years. A former Knight-Bagehot Fellow, she was a bureau chief at Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and has worked as a reporter in Turkey, Pakistan, Spain and the UK.
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| Ariel Schwartz |
| Program Manager |
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Ariel Schwartz is a Program Manager at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. She completed a Bachelors of Arts in Government concentrating in International Relations and a Masters in Public Administration concentrating in US Foreign Policy from Cornell University. She has previously worked in educational program development for financial services firms.
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| Sarah Green |
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Sarah Green has worked in program management, communications and research for non-profit community development organizations in Latin America, India and the US. She holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University.
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| Eva Kaplan |
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Eva has worked on foreign policy and development issues in Kenya, the UK and the US. She holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Wellesley College.
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