Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Stony Brook University

Stephanie Kelton is an American economist, academic, and author of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy. She is currently a professor at Stony Brook University. Professor Kelton has served as Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economic Perspectives and she was named one of Politico's 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016." She has been a notable proponent of and researcher in Modern Monetary Theory, publishing several papers and editing books in the field, and a supporter of the proposal for a Job Guarantee.