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Ann Pettifor is a Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre at City University (CITYPERC) and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, London. She is best known for correctly predicting the Global Financial Crises in several publications including "Coming soon: The new poor”〔(“Coming soon: The new poor” ) (''The New Statesman'' 2003)〕 and her 2006 publication "The coming first world debt crisis" (Palgrave Macmillan). Pettifor's background is in sovereign debt. She was one of the leaders in the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign which succeeded in writing off $100 billion of debts (in nominal terms) owed by 35 of the poorest countries. She is also Executive Director of a consultancy Advocacy International, which undertakes advises governments and organisations on matters relating to international finance and sustainable development. Ann Pettifor's recently published: Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance (Commonwealth Publishing 2014). ==Biography== Born in South Africa, Pettifor graduated with a degree in politics and economics from the University of the Witwatersrand. In the 1980s she held several posts as adviser to the leader of the Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone, and the leader of the Inner London Education Authority, Frances Morrell. She also advised the Right Hon. Margaret Beckett MP who went on to serve in the 1997 Labour government. Pettifor also worked as a lobbyist for Ian Greer Associates. Pettifor co-founded the Jubilee 2000 worldwide campaign for the cancellation of the debts of the poorest countries. In 1998, Jubilee 2000 organised a human chain of approximately 70,000 people, which surrounded the 1998 G8 summit in Birmingham, United Kingdom.〔 In 1999 at the Cologne G8 Summit, the G8 agreed to write off approximately $100 billion in third world debt, in large part due to the campaign, which had supporters such as Pope John Paul II, Muhammad Ali, Bono, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Bill Clinton. At the conclusion of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, Pettifor joined the New Economics Foundation in London where she headed up their research unit on global macro-economics. She subsequently set up Advocacy International, a UK-based consultancy that advises governments and international organisations and serves as its executive director, and has helped secure debt relief for the governments of Guyana, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.〔 Advocacy International also works with local authorities, trades unions, governments, NGOs and charities. Their concerns are wide-ranging: AIDS, maternal survival; enhancing local government; the financial crisis; employment; public services; climate change; energy security – as well as sovereign debt. Since 2007 Ann Pettifor is part of the Green New Deal Group, who advocates the environmental transformation of the economy. The group put forward plans to invest in green energy, provide greater regulation of the finance sector, and strengthen ties between environmentalists, industry, agriculture, and trade unions. The proposals were put forth in response to fears over the recession, climate change, and increasing energy prices, and stressed the need for integrative policies towards tackling all three. In the 2010 general election Pettifor attempted to stand for Parliament as a Labour candidate. She got as far as being shortlisted in the North West Durham selection process, though she lost out to Pat Glass.〔http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4869165.___An_honour____as_Labour_chooses_its_candidate/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Pettifor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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