![]() ![]() Tharman has spent his working life in public service. He is also on the External Advisory Group to the IMF Managing Director, and the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees. Tharman has co-chaired the Advisory Board to the Human Development Report since 2019, as well as the Global Education Forum. He was also Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) from 2011-2014, the first Asian to hold the chair. He also led the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, which in Oct 2018 proposed reforms for a more effective system of global finance for growth, sustainability and financial stability. Tharman had earlier co-chaired the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing the global commons for future pandemic security in 2021. He recently served on the High-Level Advisory Board established by the UN Secretary-General that made recommendations for the 2024 Summit of the Future. He also chairs the board of trustees of the Group of Thirty, an independent council of economic and financial leaders from the public and private sectors and academia. Tharman co-chairs the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. He is concurrently the Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator. He is also Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and advises the Prime Minister on economic policies. Tharman Shanmugaratnam is Senior Minister in Singapore, following several years of serving as Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Finance. ![]() She is working on a book on social change and repertoires of hope, to be published by Simon and Schuster (US) and Penguin (UK). ![]() An Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2019-2021, she spent 2019-2020 on sabbatical at the Russell Sage Foundation. Lamont is a former Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Her most recent publications include the coauthored book Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (Princeton University Press 2016) the 2017 ASA Presidential Address “Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality” (American Sociological Review 2018) and a special issue of Daedalus on “Inequality as a Multidimensional Process” (coedited with Paul Pierson summer 2019). A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author or coauthor of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods. She is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from five countries (Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK). She is also the recipient of a 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2014 Gutenberg research award, and the 2017 Erasmus prize (for her contributions to the social sciences in Europe and the rest of the world). She served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017 and she chaired the Council for European Studies from 2006-2009. ![]() Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. ![]()
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