Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor is a fellow of nef (the new economics foundation), and author of books on debt and international finance. She is best known for her leadership of a world-wide campaign to cancel approximately $100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries – Jubilee 2000. In 2003 she correctly predicted the bursting of the credit bubble (”The Credit Crunch”) in a book she edited for the new economics foundation, The Real World Economic Outlook (2003). She is also author of The Coming First World Debt Crisis (2006). Ann blogs about the crisis at Debtonation.org.