Dambisa Moyo was born
and raised in Zambia, Southern Africa. She completed a PhD in Economics
at Oxford University and holds a Masters from Harvard University. She
completed a Bachelors degree in Chemistry and MBA in Finance at the
American University in Washington D.C..
She worked at Goldman Sachs for 8 years in the debt capital
markets, hedge fund coverage and in global macroeconomics teams.
Previously she worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C.. Dambisa is
a member of the Boards of Lundin Petroleum and SAB Miller.
Dambisa is a Patron for Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a hedge fund
supported children’s charity. She serves on the Boards of the Lundin
for Africa Foundation and Room to Read, an educational charity.
Dambisa argues for more innovative ways for Africa
to finance development including trade with China, accessing the
capital markets, and microfinance.
Dambisa has also been offered a contract for another book, entitled How
the West Was Lost, scheduled for publication with Penguin and Farrar,
Straus & Giroux in 2010. This book examines the policy errors made
in the US and other Western economies which culminated in the 2008
financial crisis. And discusses why financial and economic experts
missed the signs of the credit crunch. It also explores the policy
decisions that have placed the emerging world- China, Russia and the
Middle East, in pole position to become the dominant economic players
in the 21st century.
