Branko Milanovic is a leading scholar on income inequality. In 2014, he joined the Graduate Center as Visiting Presidential Professor and LIS Senior Scholar. Before coming to the Graduate Center, he was Lead Economist in the World Bank's research department. He is the author of numerous articles on methodology and empirics of global income distribution and effects of globalization. His most recent book "The Haves and the Have-nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality," Basic Books was published in December 2010.