Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book "The Triumph of Injustice", joint with his colleague Gabriel Zucman, narrates the demise of US progressive taxation and how to reinvent it in the 21st century. He received numerous academic awards including the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2010, and a Honorary degree from Harvard University in 2019.