Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International. In the 1990s she helped design and lead the international campaign Jubilee 2000. She is editor of The Real World Economic Outlook (Palgrave, 2003) and author of The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave, 2006). She blogs at debtonation.org

Recent articles

An imaginative and radical set of policies is needed to address the triple crunch of debt, peak oil and climate change, says Ann Pettifor.

(This article was first published on 27 October 2008)

The United States-centred financial crisis will damage the lives and futures of savers, employees, businesses and consumers across the world. All the more reason to address the systemic failures that led to it, says Ann Pettifor.

The international debt crisis symbolised by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch exposes the failure of the world's financial architecture. Ann Pettifor, whose openDemocracy article predicted the crisis in 2003, explains and looks ahead.

(This article was first published on 16 September 2008)

The balloon of irresponsible debt on which globalisation floated started to burst in August 2007. A year on from "debtonation day", Ann Pettifor surveys the wreckage, pinpoints the culprits, and outlines the solutions.

(This article was first published on 8 August 2008)

The precedent of the United States's great depression and Japan's post-bubble collapse should haunt today's G8 summiteers, says Ann Pettifor.

(This article was first published on 7 July 2008)