A leading authority on how the widespread impact of financial systems continues to affect our daily lives, Nomi Prins has spent decades analyzing and investigating economic and financial events at the ground level and meeting with those that shape the world’s geo-political-economic framework. She joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series in a week exploring “Innovation in Capitalism” to discuss her latest book, Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever, the gap between the financial markets and the real economy, and what it means for everyone’s future.

Before becoming an author and advocate for economic reform, Prins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, ran the international analytics group as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in London, and was a strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Prins’ other books include Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World; All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power; It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street; and Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America. A widely sought-after speaker and adviser, she has also served as a member of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council.

Prins received her Bachelor of Science in math from SUNY Purchase, and Master of Science in statistics from New York University. She received her Ph.D. in international strategic studies with a specialization in international political economy from The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.