Ann Pettifor is best known for understanding how financial systems really work, and for warning, early and accurately, what happens when they don’t.

An economist, author, and long-standing authority on debt and monetary policy, Ann was among the first to predict the global financial crisis of 2008. Her work focuses on the architecture of modern finance: how credit is created, how debt accumulates, and how financial power shapes economic outcomes for governments, businesses, and societies alike.

Her relevance to board-level audiences lies in systemic clarity. Ann examines how financial instability emerges not from shocks alone, but from design flaws in markets, regulation, and monetary governance. She challenges the assumption that finance is neutral or self-correcting, showing instead how poorly structured financial systems amplify risk, inequality, and long-term fragility.

As the author of The Production of Money, Just Money, and The Case for the Green New Deal, Ann brings rigorous insight into how money, credit, and investment decisions influence growth, resilience, and transition, particularly in an era defined by climate risk, geopolitical volatility, and rising debt burdens.