Dr. Anthony Annett is a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University and a senior adviser at the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Dr. Annett is the author of Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy (Georgetown UP, 2022), in which he presents an economic model based on Catholic social teaching and classical ethical traditions. To do so, he relies on numerous authors, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Pope Leo XII … and Ambrose.

Dr. Annett is a Climate Change and Sustainable Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Working closely with Religions for Peace, he leads the Earth Institute's initiative to strengthen the engagement of the world's religious communities in the climate change and sustainable development agenda.

Trained as an economist, Annett has a keen interest in Catholic social teaching and in the intersection of ethics and economics more broadly. He has acted as an informal consultant to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and co-authored the remarks delivered by Dr. Carolyn Woo at the launch of the encyclical, Laudato Si'.

Annett spent sixteen years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, with stints in the European, Fiscal Affairs, and Communications departments. In this role, he worked as an economist in a variety of countries and regions. Most recently, he worked for five years as a speechwriter to two successive Managing Directors, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Christine Lagarde.

Co-sponsored by the Francis at 10 conference dedicated to Pope Francis and the Academy for the Study of Saint Ambrose of Milan. The lecture will be in Rogalski Center ballroom, SAU.