For our first Departmental Seminar of the academic year 2025-26, we are immensely honoured to be hosting 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz.

*Please note* that this seminar will take place exceptionally in the Albert Sorel-Leroy Beaulieu Amphitheatre, in Sciences Po's main building at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume (3rd floor). 

He will present a recent paper, joint with Maxim Ventura-Bolet, at our inaugural Departmental Seminar on the topic of:

Information, Communication, and Knowledge: The Impact of AI and Digital Platforms on the Information Eco-System (read abstract, PDF 22 KB)

If you have signed up for a meeting with Professor Stiglitz on the Departmental googlesheet, his office is located at Saint Thomas, in room K021.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, the co-chair of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.  He is a former senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. 

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001. In 2024 he was named an Honorary Academician by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and in 2025 Pope Francis named him a Chair of the Jubilee Commission of Experts to address Debt and Development Crises. 

Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society and The Origins of Inequality & Policies to Contain It.

Joseph E. Stiglitz's website

The next Departmental Seminar will take place on September 15th.