Establishing an International Panel on Inequality

In 2025, at the request of President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Professor Joseph Stiglitz was asked to lead a committee of global experts to prepare a report on global inequality, to be presented to the G20. The final report outlined the drivers of extreme inequality, its consequences and its solutions. The report declared an inequality emergency that is on a par with the climate emergency and should be treated as such. Its main recommendation is for the establishment of a new International Panel on Inequality (IPI), which would play a similar role to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.