She has written for international financial and economic journals, periodicals, and publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, and Time. Moyo is a public speaker, commentator, and columnist. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Global Economic Imbalances, and the Bretton Woods Committee. Moyo is also a former board member of the charities Lundin for Africa and Room to Read. Īs of 2022, she is on the boards of Chevron Corporation, 3M Company. She is also a former board member of Barclays Bank, the international mining company Barrick Gold, and the data storage company Seagate Technology.

Board memberships Īfter leaving Goldman Sachs, Moyo joined the board of directors of the international brewer SABMiller in 2009. She was also head of economic research and strategy for sub-Saharan Africa. Part of her tenure at Goldman Sachs was spent advising developing countries on the issuing of bonds on the international market. She was with the company until November 2008, working mainly in debt capital markets, hedge funds coverage, and global macroeconomics. Īfter pursuing her MPA and PhD, Moyo joined Goldman Sachs as a research economist and strategist in 2001. She was a consultant in the bank's Europe, Central Asia and Africa departments, and co-authored the World Bank's annual World Development Report. Career World Bank and Goldman Sachs įollowing her MBA, Moyo worked at the World Bank from May 1993 to September 1995. In 2002 she received a DPhil in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford University. She acquired a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree at Harvard University's John F. She received an MBA in finance from the university in 1993. She studied chemistry at the University of Zambia, and completed her BS in chemistry in 1991 at American University in Washington, D.C. She spent some of her childhood in the United States, while her father was pursuing his post graduate education, then returned to Zambia.

She has written five books, including four New York Times bestsellers: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011), Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012), Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018), and How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021). How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021)ĭambisa Felicia Moyo, Baroness Moyo (born 2 February 1969) is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. Macroeconomics, international development, global affairs

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