SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: www.oxford-union.org/ The world's leading thinker on wealth and income inequality, Piketty is renowned for his New York Times bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A fierce critic of the concentration of wealth, he has held positions at the LSE, MIT and Paris School of Economics. In 2017, he advised Benoit Hamon's socialist presidential campaign in France. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. Since 1823, the Union has been promoting debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.