Éric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist with a PhD from the universities of Paris VIII and Liège. He is spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debt) international network. He took part in the process that launched the World Social Forum in 2001. He is the author of a dozen of books : Greece 2015: There was an alternative , Resistance Books, the IIRE and the CADTM, London, 2020, The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation (Haymarket, Chicago, 2019); Bankocracy (Resistance books, London, 2015). Several of his books have been published in a dozen languages and have become reference works: Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers (Monthly Review, New York, 2010) and The World Bank: A Critical Primer (Pluto, London, 2008). He has taken part in producing two manuals for conducting citizens’ audits.
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