
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality: Past Lessons and Future Prospects” from June 21, 2024. Click here to watch the original video. Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Branko Milanovic on global inequality and how the subject's past can inform the future. Branko Milanovic is an economist best known for working on income distribution and inequality. He is a research professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, leaving to write his book on global income inequality, Worlds Apart (2005). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997- 2007). He was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford, and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2010-11). For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext