Author DAMBISA MOYO Economist
Biography of Dr. Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist and author who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs.
She was an economist at Goldman Sachs where she worked for nearly a decade, and was a consultant to the World Bank in Washington D.C. 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 next book, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World is scheduled for publication on June 5, 2012.
In 2009, Ms. Moyo was named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”, and was named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Her writing regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such as the Financial Times, the Economist Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University.
Speaking Topics
Ms. Moyo has extensive international experience on a broad array of topics, including speeches under the following headings:
I. Global Macroeconomy A. Where Will Global Growth Emerge B. Global Imbalances: The West versus the Rest C. The Risk of A Disintegrating G-20 D. Now for the Reckoning: Closing the Duration Gap Between Pension Assets and Liabilities II. Commodities A. Is This the End of the Commodity Super-Cycle? B. China’s Rush for Resources: A Three-Pronged Approach to Securing Global Commodities C. Commodity Demand Outstripping Resource Supply: A Harbinger of Things to Come III. Economic Development A. The Challenges of Aid to Spur Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty B. A Snapshot of the African Continent C. A New African Perspective: Growth Opportunities and the Investment Case
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[email protected] facebook.com/dmoyo twitter @dambisamoyo Author DAMBISA MOYO Economist Ms. Moyo has made numerous speeches to large and small audiences in venues on every continent including:
Global conferences such as The World Economic Forum in Davos, the 2010 Bilderberg Conference, the Milken Institute Conference Policy audiences at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Peterson Institute, and Chatham House Academic audiences at universities such as at Harvard University and Oxford University A large number of money managers: including hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds Several Multinational Corporations, Law firms, and Global Consulting firms Media interviews on CNN (for example Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square), Charlie Rose, SKY, NPR, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox Business, and financial media such as Bloomberg, CNBC
For more information and examples of her speaking please visit www.dambisamoyo.com.
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WINNER TAKE ALL Advance Praise
Kirkus, The World’s Toughest Book Critic
“Written to clarify important global questions, this book deserves a wide audience.”
Jim Rogers, Author of the bestselling book Hot Commodities “Dambisa Moyo offers a smart primer for investors looking to make sense of the opportunities and risks in the commodity space today. You must read this book if you want to understand the reality of what’s happening in the world today. I am afraid the West is going to wake up too late to prepare for the future.”
Peter Munk, Chairman and Founder, Barrick Gold Corporation “For anyone longing to make sense of tectonic, eco-political shifts occurring in the commodities market, Winner Takes All is a fascinating and important book. By focusing her razor-sharp mind on China's central role in the new commodities rush, Ms. Moyo sheds light on and makes sense of a profound and dramatic moment in our history. Her book is a must-read.”
Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group “Dambisa Moyo offers a timely and provocative answer to two crucial questions: How are China’s leaders rushing to meet their country’s exploding demand for energy and what does this mean for the rest of us? From Africa to Central Asia to Latin America, China exerts growing influence over prices for the commodities we all must buy to fuel our cars, heat our homes, and power our economies. It’s a recipe for conflict—and at a crucial moment for the future of the global economy.”
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WINNER TAKE ALL Partial List of Possible Interview Topics
In an interview, Dambisa Moyo can discuss the following topics and more:
(1) Why is commodity demand skyrocketing? The effects of increasing population, growing global wealth, and urbanization on demand for land, water, energy, and minerals in China and around the world.
(2) Existing supply constraints, commodity depletion rates, and the future risks to commodity supplies. How long will supplies last? What will happen when supplies run out?
(3) The economic and political dynamics around specific commodities, both in China and around the world: arable land, fresh water, food, oil, shale, natural gas, coal, copper, aluminum, rare earths, gold, and more.
(4) The global consequences of this mounting supply-demand imbalance: higher prices, shortages, and increased risks of conflict. Where are the biggest trouble spots?
(5) Technological innovations in the energy and mining sectors (for example, shale and fracking) and why these may not offer a reprieve.
(6) Why and how claims that China’s partnerships in Africa and South America are “exploitation” or “neocolonialism” or result in human rights and environmental abuses are often exaggerated and sometimes false and completely misplaced.
(7) China’s three-pronged resource acquisition strategy and how China influences the commodity markets. Why does China frequently pay above market prices for resources?
(8) What is the rest of the world doing to protect itself from commodity shortages and price spikes? What do other countries need to know?
(9) What are the risks we face if countries continue to think about commodities on only a unilateral basis? How might these risks be averted?
Please visit www.dambisamoyo.com to see samples of prior interviews and speaking appearances.
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