Dambisa Moyo
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| Born |
2 February 1969 Lusaka, Zambia |
| Alma mater | American University (BS, MBA) Harvard University (MPA) St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil) |
| Occupation | Economist, author |
| Known for | Economic theories on macroeconomics, international development, global affairs |
| Notable work |
Dead Aid (2009) How the West Was Lost (2011) Winner Take All (2012) |
Dambisa Moyo (born 2 February 1969) is a Zambian-born international economist and author who analyzes the macroeconomy and global affairs. With post-graduate degrees in business, public administration, and economics from American University, Harvard, and Oxford, Moyo currently serves on the boards of Barclays Bank, the financial services group, SABMiller, the global brewer, and Barrick Gold, the global miner. She worked for two years at the World Bank and eight years at Goldman Sachs before becoming an author and international public speaker. She has written three New York Times bestselling books: 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), and Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012).
Dambisa Moyo was born in 1969 in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia and studied Chemistry at the University of Zambia. She finished her degree in the U.S. via a scholarship to American University in Washington, D.C. Moyo received a BS in Chemistry from American University in 1991, and an MBA in Finance from the university in 1993.
She acquired a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2002 she received a DPhil in Economics from St Antony's College, Oxford University. Her Oxford studies were in macroeconomics, and her doctoral dissertation was on savings rates in developing countries.
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