Trained at Paris School of Economics, winner of Le Monde’s prize for best young economist, Piketty is a world’s leading expert on income and wealth inequality, and a high profile social commentator. His 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a publishing phenomenon that has rocketed to the top of Amazon’s book chart in the US. In 2013, Piketty had received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, given by the eponym Finnish Foundation and the European Economic Association (EEA) to European economists under the age of 45 “who have made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe.”.