Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty (born 1971) is a French economist renowned for his work on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor at EHESS, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics, and Centennial Professor at the LSE's International Inequalities Institute, with notable works including Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and Capital and Ideology (2019). His career highlights include earning a PhD at age 22, winning the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2013), and advising political figures like Ségolène Royal.