Biography
Stephanie Kelton is a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University. Before joining
Stony Brook, she chaired the Economics Department at the University of Missouri—Kansas
City, where she taught for seventeen years. She served as chief economist on the U.S.
Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) in 2015 and as a senior economic adviser
to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign. She is a former editor-in-chief of
the top-ranked blog New Economic Perspectives and member of the TopWonks network of
the nation's best thinkers.
In 2016, POLITICO named her one of the 50 people most influencing the public public
debate in America. She is a contributing writer at Bloomberg View and a Founding Fellow
of the Sanders'Institute. She is Chair of the Board at Economists for Peace & Security.
Her forthcoming book, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of a
New Economy, will be published by Public Affairs in 2020.
Kelton is a regular commentator on national radio and broadcast television, and she
consults with policymakers, investment banks, and portfolio managers across the globe.
Her research expertise is in Federal Reserve operations, fiscal policy, social security,
international finance, and employment policy. She received her Ph.D. from the New
School for Social Research and holds an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University.
