Economist Ann Pettifor @MomentumBedford

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Ann Pettifor is a director of the think-tank Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME). In September 2015 she was appointed as a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Economic Advisory Committee, along with Mariana Mazzucato, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Anastasia Nesvetailova and Danny Blanchflower. Her background is in sovereign debt – particularly those of low-income countries. More recently she has analysed, and written extensively on both the private and public debts of Anglo-American economies. She was one of the leaders of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which led to the writing off of $100 billion of debt owed by 35 of the poorest countries in the world. In 2005 she helped clear $30bn of debt owed to the Paris Club of creditors.

Ann, along with Steve Keen, was one of the few people to correctly predict the global recession of 2007. She is an honorary research fellow at City Political Economy Research Centre, City University London: and is Chair of the Advisory Board at Goldsmiths College’s Political Economy Research Centre, London. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle and is a senior fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London.


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Event Organiser : Momentum Bedford


Event: Momentum Launch and Anti-austerity Discussion with John McDonnell

Thursday, 26th May 2016, 1900 Hours


The Queens Park Community Centre, 52 Marlborough Rd, Bedford, MK40 4LF

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