World’s Worst Economist becomes “Economist-in-Residence” at taxpayer-funded gallery

Professor Mariana Mazzucato has yet another role

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the world’s worst economist who inspired Keir Starmer’s “missions”, has been extremely busy.

When she’s not flying for work, attending events with Ed Miliband or running the Soros-funded UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, she is also a “member of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council”, as documented on the UN website.


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