Distinguished Professor in Economics at the Cuny (City University of New York) Graduate Center. Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Gerald Loeb Award winner for Commentary (New York Times). As one of the world’s best-known and most acclaimed economists, Paul speaks on the leading issues of the day affecting the world economy. An insightful, outspoken, passionate, and articulate speaker with a gift for relating global economic events to his audiences and committed to speaking the truth as he sees it in the most compelling terms. In 2024, he retired his twice-weekly Op-Ed column for the New York Times after 25 years at the paper. He wrote with the same depth of insight and an unflinchingly outspoken style he brings to his speeches. Krugman also earned broad acclaim from the economic press and several prestigious awards, including the John Bates Clark medal from the American Economic Association for his work in international trade and finance, and the Roosevelt Institute 2013 Four Freedoms Medal: Freedom of Speech. He was chosen as one of Bloomberg’s 50 Most Influential People in Global Finance in 2011, and was in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for four straight years (2009-2012).