Committee Members

The Committee on Global Thought is comprised of distinguished professors from all areas of Columbia University. President Lee Bollinger appoints distinguished scholars and faculty to the Committee.

Committee Chair

Joseph Stiglitz

  • Professor of Economics
    Department of Economics
    Columbia University
  • Chair
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor at Columbia University. He has been a Professor of Economics at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College, Oxford.

Committee Members

Akeel Bilgrami

  • Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia's Heyman Center for the Humanities. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and before that at Elphinstone College, Bombay.  He has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago.

Patrick Bolton

  • David Zalaznick Professor of Business
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business.He joined Columbia Business School in July 2005. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1986 and holds a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Partha Chatterjee

  • Professor of Anthropology
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Partha Chatterjee is a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and a Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, India.

John Coatsworth

  • Professor of History and International and Public Affairs
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University
  • Director
    Institute of Latin American Studies
    Columbia University
  • Dean
    School of International and Public Affairs
    Columbia University

John Coatsworth is Professor of History and International and Public Affairs, director of the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He has written many scholarly articles on Latin American economic and international history.

Mamadou Diouf

  • Professor of History, Director Institute for African Studies
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Mamadou Diouf is a Professor of History and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). He leads Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Nicholas Dirks

  • Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University
  • Professor of History
    Columbia University

Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History at Columbia University, where he is also Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Michael Doyle

  • Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Doyle previously has taught at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Yale Law School.

Sherry Glied

  • Chair and Professor of the Health Policy and Management Department
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Sherry Glied is Chair and Professor of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Sherry Glied’s principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental healthcare policy.

Carol Gluck

  • George Sansom Professor of History
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History in the Departments of History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She writes about modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, contemporary international relations, World War II, and history and memory in Asia and the West.

José Antonio Ocampo

  • Professor of Professional Practice and International Affairs
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

José Antonio Ocampo is Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University since 2007. He served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs from September 2003 to June 2007. Mr. Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.

Katharina Pistor

  • Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Katharina Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches Corporations, Lawyering in Multiple Legal Orders, Globalization in Comparative Perspective, and Law and Capitalism.

Saskia Sassen

  • Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
    Committee on Global Thought
    Columbia University

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her research and writing focuses on globalization, immigration, global cities, new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths.”