India, Nov. 14 -- Joseph E. Stiglitz is one of the best-known and decorated economists in the world. Currently a professor at Columbia University, New York, Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. He also served as the Chief Economist at the World Bank from 1997-2000 and the member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to former President Bill Clinton between 1993 and 1997. In 2009, he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System. Stiglitz's work as an economist includes a broad range of topics from asymmetric information to inequality and issues concerning the global monetary and fiscal s...