Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor advises the Operation Noah campaign, and acts as its part-time director. She is a fellow of the new economics foundation (nef) and co-author of ‘The Green New Deal’ . Ann was a leader and co-founder of the international Jubilee 2000 campaign (‘Drop the Debt’) from 1994 until 2001. She helped mobilise a global movement (most of whom were faith-motivated) that persuaded world leaders to cancel more than £100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries.

She lectures widely on international finance and sovereign debt; and on the need to devise new economic policies to deal with the ‘triple crunch’ of the financial crisis; peak oil and climate change. She is also a director of Advocacy International Ltd.

She blogs at her website: www.debtonation.org and also the Huffington Post  and has contributed articles to a range of journals, the Guardian and the New Statesman on the current financial crisis.

She is editor of ‘The real world economic outlook’ (Palgrave 2003) which in 2003 accurately predicted “a seismic crisis” - the bursting of the credit bubble “in America, not Argentina”. (Cover of the New Statesman 1st September, 2003.) In 2006 she authored ‘The coming first world debt crisis’ (Palgrave 2006).