Joseph Stiglitz
2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics | University Professor, Columbia | Chief Economist, Roosevelt Institute | Former Chief Economist, World Bank
Michael Woodford
2026 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences | John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University | Author of Interest and Prices
Michael Woodford is a 2026 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and one of the world's foremost authorities on monetary policy. The John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia, he shared the prize with Robert E. Hall for grounding macroeconomic models in the real decisions of households and firms. His landmark book, Interest and Prices, became the foundation of the framework central banks use to steer inflation and employment.
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Michael Woodford biography
Economics speaker Michael Woodford is the 2026 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and one of the world’s foremost authorities on monetary policy, the tools central banks use to manage inflation, employment, and economic stability. The John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, he was awarded the prize jointly with Robert E. Hall for showing how macroeconomic models can be grounded in the real expectations and decisions of households and firms.
Woodford is best known for building the theoretical foundations of modern monetary policy. His landmark book, Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, became the defining text of the “New Keynesian” approach now used by central banks around the world. A central theme of his work is that stabilizing an economy is not simply a matter of pulling levers; it depends on how households, firms, and markets form expectations about the future, and on how clearly central banks communicate their intentions.
The Theory Behind Modern Central Banking
The 2026 prize recognized how Woodford and Hall rebuilt stabilization policy on solid microeconomic foundations, work that shapes the decisions of the world’s central banks. For his 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and decades of pathbreaking research, Woodford has also received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, and the Nemmers Prize in Economics. His current work explores how the limits of human reasoning, drawn from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, should reshape economic theory itself.
As a speaker, Michael Woodford brings rare clarity to the forces that shape inflation, interest rates, and economic stability, and to the thinking inside the world’s central banks. He speaks on monetary policy and how it really works, the role of expectations and communication in steering the economy, and what recent years of inflation and uncertainty reveal about the limits and the power of stabilization policy. Audiences gain an authoritative, lucid guide to the decisions that move markets and economies, from the economist who built much of the underlying theory.
Michael Woodford Speaking Videos
Nobel Symposium Michael Woodford Monetary policy: Conventional and unconventional
2018, Macroeconomics Lecture, Michael Woodford, "Monetary Policy Analysis When Planning Horizons..."
Michael Woodford Keynote Topics
Few people understand the machinery of monetary policy more deeply than Michael Woodford, whose work built much of its modern theory. In this keynote he takes audiences inside the world’s central banks: how they actually try to manage inflation, interest rates, and employment, why their decisions ripple through every market and business, and what the tools of monetary policy can and cannot do. An authoritative, genuinely illuminating guide to the forces that shape the economic environment.
A core insight of Michael Woodford’s Nobel-winning work is that stabilizing an economy is not just about actions, it is about expectations. In this fascinating keynote he explains why what people and markets believe about the future is as powerful as any policy lever, and why how central banks communicate has become one of their most important tools. Audiences come away with a sophisticated, memorable understanding of why words, credibility, and expectations move economies.
After years of inflation shocks and economic uncertainty, the questions at the heart of Michael Woodford’s work have never been more urgent. Drawing on the research that earned him the Nobel Prize, he examines what recent experience reveals about managing inflation and stabilizing economies, where policy succeeded, where it fell short, and how the thinking is evolving. A timely, authoritative keynote on the economic challenges that matter most to businesses, investors, and leaders today.
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Why Michael Woodford?
Michael Woodford is a 2026 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and one of the world’s foremost authorities on monetary policy, the economist whose work built much of the theory behind modern central banking. Hosting him gives an audience a direct line to the thinking that shapes inflation, interest rates, and economic stability worldwide. Lucid and authoritative, he makes the inner workings of the economy, and the decisions of central banks, genuinely understandable and relevant to business leaders and investors. He is a distinguished choice for events on economics, finance, monetary policy, and the global economic outlook. To enquire about Michael Woodford, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Michael Woodford?
Michael Woodford is an American economist and the 2026 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. Born in 1955, he is the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and one of the world’s leading theorists of monetary policy. He earned his PhD at MIT, was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship early in his career, and is best known for his landmark book Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy, a defining text of the modern “New Keynesian” approach used by central banks. His work focuses on the role of expectations, communication, and, more recently, the limits of human reasoning in how economies respond to policy. He shared the 2026 Nobel Prize with Robert E. Hall of Stanford University “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
What did Michael Woodford win the Nobel Prize for?
Michael Woodford shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert E. Hall “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.” Their work revitalized the way economists think about stabilizing economies by grounding large-scale macroeconomic models in the real decisions and expectations of individual households and firms. Woodford’s particular contribution lies at the heart of modern monetary policy: his landmark book Interest and Prices provided the theoretical foundations for the “New Keynesian” framework that central banks now use to manage inflation and employment. A key theme of his work is that stabilization is not simply a mechanical exercise of “pulling levers”, it depends on how people and markets form expectations about the future and on how clearly central banks communicate. That insight reshaped how institutions like the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank think about guiding economies, making Woodford one of the most influential monetary economists of his generation.
What topics does economics speaker Michael Woodford cover?
Michael Woodford speaks on how monetary policy works and how central banks steer the economy, the power of expectations and communication, and the future of inflation and stabilization policy. His profile suits events on economics, finance, monetary policy, and the economic outlook, for corporate, investor, and policy audiences. To enquire about Michael Woodford, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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