Joseph Stiglitz to speak at international co-ops summit

15 April 2016

The Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed economist Joseph Stiglitz has been announced as a speaker at the International Summit of Co-operatives in Quebec later this year. Mr Stiglitz has long denounced the gap between the rich and the poor, a phenomenon exacerbated by the financial and economic crises. He presents ways to reverse this trend, which democratic societies have been unable to do despite the expectation that they should be moving in a direction with everyone’s interests in mind.

Also announced as speakers at the Summit are Mark R. Kramer, FSG co-founder and shared value advocate, and Robert Reich, influential economist and former Secretary of Labor under U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The Summit will bring together CEOs, managers, political stakeholders, representatives of international organisations, regulators and researchers from the co-operative and mutual sector globally but also executives, entrepreneurs and individuals from other business models and backgrounds.