Professor Stephanie Kelton

Stephanie Kelton is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University and a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She is a leading expert on Modern Monetary Theory and a former Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff). She served as senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. She was named by POLITICO (2016) as one of the 50 people most influencing the policy debate in America, as one of the 50 people who defined 2019 by Bloomberg Businessweek, as one of Barron’s top 100 Women in Finance (2020/21), and by Prospect Magazine (2020) as one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers. Her 2020 book, The Deficit Myth, became an instant New York Times bestseller. She has been a contributor to Bloomberg Opinion, the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Reports, CNN, and others. She holds Visiting Professorships at The New School for Social Research, the University of Ljubljana, and the University of Adelaide. She was previously Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri.