Zambian economist, Dambisa Felicia Moyo ( born in ) is a specialist in macroeconomics and the influence of international aid. In 2018, you voted for her for the Nob'Elle Economics Prize!
Chemistry and economics studies
Dambisa Moyo was born on February 2, 1969 in Lusaka, capital of Zambia. She first studied chemistry at the University of Zambia, then in the United States. In 1993, she obtained an MBA (master of business administration , Masters of Business Administration) in Economics at American University in Washington D.C.
After graduating, Dambisa worked for a few years at the World Bank and then at Goldman Sachs as a consultant, researcher and strategist in the macroeconomics team. She is studying at Oxford, where she specializes in macroeconomics, studying economics at the level of countries and major international organizations. In 2002, she obtained her doctorate working on savings in developing countries.
Career
Upon leaving Goldman Sachs in 2008, Dambisa Moyo joined the SABMiller brewery board in 2009. She oversees the company's risk management, sustainability and social responsibility responsibilities.
In 2010, Dambisa joined the board of directors of Barclays Bank and, the following year, that of the international mining company Barrick Gold. Dambisa also sits on the board of US-based Seagate Technology, Chevron Corporation and 3M Company.
A best-selling author, Dambisa published four books on economics that were New York Times bestsellers. The fame due to the success of her works earned her to become a sought-after expert, lecturer and author. Dambisa writes for economic journals, lectures around the world at financial and economic summits, speaks on radio and television.
Dead Aid:Why Aid Is Not Working
Dambisa's first book, Dead Aid:Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa (translated into English as Fatal Aid:The Ravages of Unnecessary Aid and New Solutions for Africa ), believes that the effects of international aid in Africa are generally negative, fostering dependency, perpetuating poverty and encouraging corruption. Dambisa Moyo offers solutions for financing development by the countries themselves. A New York Times bestseller, the book, prefaced by Harvard professor and historian Niall Ferguson, was a resounding success.
Dambisa's second book, How the West Was Lost:Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (How the West Lost:Fifty Years of Economic Madness – and the Hard Choices Ahead) looks at the decline of Western economic supremacy. His third, Winner Take All:China's Race for. Resources and What It Means for the World (Winner Takes All:China's Resource Race and What It Means to the World) deals with China's international economic policy. Finally, his 2018 book Edge of Chaos (on the brink of chaos) asserts that liberal democracies fail to create growth, and that they must be reformed.
Awards
In 2009, Dambisa Moyo was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. . The same year, Oprah Winfrey quotes her in her list of twenty women of power. The Daily Beast website also chooses her as one of its "150 Extraordinary Women Shaking the World". In 2013, Dambisa Moyo received the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award.