Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz will release the findings of a new study on the relationship between press freedom and advancing democratic values and economic development at a National Press Club Headliners Coffee and Conversation at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, in the First Amendment Lounge.
Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and the former chief economist at the World Bank, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 jointly with George Akerlof and A. Michael Spence for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Recently, Stiglitz has weighed in on the need to create policies to mitigate the societal harms caused by the rise of “Big Tech.”
Stiglitz’s remarks will be followed by a panel discussion of the report with Arturo Herrera Gutierrez, global director for Governance Global Practice in the Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Practice Group (EFI) Vice Presidency, Governance at the World Bank, and Eliot Minchenberg, Director of Office and UNESCO Representative to the United Nations in New York. The study is part of UNESCO’s “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development” series.
Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with coffee provided.To submit a question for the speakers, please email headliners@press.org and put UNESCO in the subject line. The deadline for submitting questions in advance is 10 a.m. on the day of the event.