Our Advisory Board has a vast body of knowledge and expertise that has been accumulated by them over decades. We are grateful to have their advice and support to help us give people across the country an opportunity to get to grips with how the economy and money system works and how the political decisions taken by government affect their lives.
William Mitchell
Professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory. He is a director of COfEE, the Centre of Full Employment and Equity promoting research aimed at restoring full employment and achieving an economy that delivers equitable outcomes for all. He has written extensively in the fields of macroeconomics, econometrics and public policy including his book Reclaiming the State
L Randall Wray
Professor of economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary theory and policy. A student of Hyman Minsky and one of the leading proponents of Modern Monetary Theory he has published extensively on full employment and fiscal policy.
Warren Mosler
Financial economist who independently originated and has spent the last 25 years promoting the school of thought that has been popularized as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). In 2010 he authored ‘The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy.’ Warren also formally entered MMT into the mainstream economic literature in 2017, co-authoring ‘Maximizing Price Stability in a Market Economy’ with Professor Damiano Silipo. Published in the ‘Journal of Policy Modeling,’ a leading peer-reviewed mainstream economics journal, it proposes the European Central Bank fund and manage an employed buffer stock policy.
Mathew Forstater
Professor of economics at UMKC and research director with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (GISP). Mathew is also a research associate of the Levy Economics Institute and was the founding director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS). He is the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including the UMKC Interdisciplinary PhD Student Council’s Outstanding Faculty Award for 2003-2004.
His research has been published widely in academic journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias, and he has edited more than ten books.
Stephanie Kelton
Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, chief economist on the US Senate Budget Committee 2015 and an Economic Adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Presidential Campaign. Stephanie is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economics Perspectives.
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Program director and associate professor of economics at Bard College and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute. Pavlina conducts research in the fields of modern monetary theory and public policy and has collaborated with policy makers from around the world on developing and evaluating various job creation programmes. Her work on the Job Guarantee spans over 20 years.”
Fadhel Kaboub
Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Fadhel’s research focuses on financial sovereignty, job creation programmes, youth unemployment and the political economy of the Middle East.
Rohan Grey
Founder and President of the Modern Money Network, a non-profit organisation promoting public understanding of economics and finance. Rohan is also a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His research explores the legal history, design and regulation of money in the internet age.
Steven Hail
Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. In recent years Dr Hail has been a teaching specialist, committed to the defence of economic pluralism and the dissemination of insights from modern monetary theory to the general public.
Deborah Harrington
Director of Public Matters an independent research and information partnership focused on public service. Deborah is on the board of directors of the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society, a community-based organisation in London which builds small scale social housing developments. From 2014-2017 she was in the campaign and policy team of the National Health Action party. Her interest in economics is a corollary of her work on health and the social determinants of health.
Jessica Ormerod
Co-director of Public Matters, an independent research and information partnership focused on public service with Deborah Harrington. Jessica worked in the campaign and policy team for the National Health Action Party.