Africa's best brains - Meet Dambisa Moyo a Global Economist from Zambia

Dambisa Moyo

Africa's best brains is a series of articles we will be featuring Africa's best brains in various sectors of the economy. This week we are featuring one of the woman i respect a lot for her intellect and focus on analyzing global economic activities and becoming a respected voice across the world.  Meet Dambisa Moyo, enjoy and be inspired 

Dambisa Moyo is a global economist and author who analyzes the macroeconomy and international affairs.

Her work has taken her to more than 70 countries over the last decade, during which time she has developed a unique knowledge on the inherent conflicts facing developed economies, as well as the interaction between politics, international finance and developing markets.

In particular, her work examines the interplay of international business and the global economy, while highlighting the key opportunities for investment; capitalizing on her rare ability to translate trends in markets, politics, regulatory matters and economics into their likely impact on global business.

Dambisa Moyo serves on the boards of Barclays Bank, the financial services group, SABMiller, the global brewer, Barrick Gold, the global miner, and Seagate Technology. She was an economist at Goldman Sachs and a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, D.C.

Dambisa was named by TIME Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum.

She was awarded the 2013 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the Nobel Prize winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Friedrich Hayek. Dr. Moyo has been a participant at the Bilderberg Conference and the U.S. Federal Reserve Jackson Hole Conference. In addition, she serves on the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils on Global Imbalances, and is a member of the Atlantic Council.

In 2015, Dambisa joined the judging panel of the FT – McKinsey Best Business Book Award and was named the Thinkers50 “Thinker of the Month”.

She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa and How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead. Her third book was Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World.

Dambisa is a contributing editor to CNBC, the business and finance news network. Her writing regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds an MPA from Harvard University. She completed a B.S. in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at American University in Washington, D.C.

She is an avid tennis fan and has run numerous half marathons and marathons. www.dambisamoyo.com