Biography
Ann Pettifor is an economist and Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME). She is the author of The Case for The Green New Deal (Verso, 2019). In 2008 she jointly co-authored the original The Green New Deal (New Economics Foundation), later taken up by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey in the US Congress. She chairs the energy company A-Deus which aims to become the lowest cost, low carbon electricity provider in Nigeria, a populous country with less than 5 GW grid capacity.