Joseph Stiglitz is Senior Fellow and Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute, University Professor at Columbia University and chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought.  He is also the co-founder and executive director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia.  In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panle on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.  His book, Globalization and Its Discontents, has been translated into 35 languages, besides at least two pirated editions. He is also the author of The Roaring Nineties, Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics with Bruce Greenwald, Fair Trade for All with Andrew Charlton, Making Globalization Work, and The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, with Linda Bilmes.  His most recent book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, was released in January 2010.