Special Conversation with
Dambisa Moyo
Acclaimed Economist
Hosted by
Jonathan Barnett
Chief of Staff to Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners
Thursday, April 26th, 6:15-7:45pm
Guggenheim Partners, 330 Madison Avenue, 43rd and 42nd
Doors open 6:15pm, Program starts PROMPTLY at 6:30pm and ends at 7:45pm
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision -makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured
judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas.
Dambisa has earned a strong reputation as a top-tier opinion former and trusted advisor on Macroeconomics, Geopolitics, Technology and Millennial themes. She is a Board member of Barclays Bank, Barrick Gold, and Chevron. She holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford, a Masters from Harvard, and is recognized for fresh and innovative ideas as the Author of three (3) New York Times Bestselling Books:
• Winner Take All: China’s race for Resources and What it Means for the World (2012)
• How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead (2011)
• Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa (2009)
Dambisa was named to the list of Time 100 Most Influential people in the world; writes for the Financial Times, WSJ, Barron's, Harvard Business Review and has travelled to 80 countries.
Edge of Chaos sets out the new political and economic challenges facing the world, and the specific, radical solutions needed to resolve these issues and reignite global growth.It offers a radical menu of ten ways to improve democracy: making it better able to address the range of headwinds that the global economy faces (including technology and the prospects of a jobless underclass, demographic shifts, gapping income inequality, an unsustainable debt burden, natural resource scarcity and declining productivity) and deliver more economic growth and prosperity.