Thomas Piketty (1971-) is a French economist and social commentator, and Professor of Economics at the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris, as well as Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. Author of Capital in the Twentieth Century (2013), his most famous work, he has also authored and co-authored a number of other books, translated into English. These include: Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: A Contrast between European and English-Speaking Countries (2007); Top Incomes: A Global Perspective (2010), (both co-authored with Anthony Barnes Atkinson); Carbon and Inequality: from Kyoto to Paris (2015); Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times (2016); Why Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis (2016); Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998 (2018); and Capital and Ideology (2020).

He has been the recipient of several awards for Capital in the Twenty-First Century, including the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and Washington Post and Economist best book of 2014.