Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo Felicia (* 1969 in Lusaka ) is a Zambian economist.

Life

At the American University in Washington, D.C. she studied chemistry and graduated after their first bachelor there an MBA in Finance. She also graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master's degree from Oxford University with a PhD in economics.

She first worked from 1993 to 1995 at the World Bank and from 2001 to 2008 for Goldman Sachs in the areas of debt capital markets, hedge funds and the global economy.

Moyo is a member of the Centre for International Business and Management ( CIBAM ) Cambridge University and the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House).

In her book Dead Aid (2009) shows the developing countries on ways to finance their own development, rather than relying on the money of development aid - which they missed for and keeps destructive. The preface of the book more than 7 million copies sold, wrote Niall Ferguson of Harvard University.

2009 honored by the World Economic Forum Dambisa Moyo for their activities in the field of microfinance ( explicit example: Kiva ) as one of the Young Global Leaders.

Time magazine chose it in 2009 among the 100 most influential people in the world.

Dambisa Moyo was participant in the Bilderberg conference 2010.

Writings

  • Essays on the determinants of components of savings in Developing countries. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford 2002
  • The impact of pension reforms on the capital markets. Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, 2005 Series: Global economics paper. # 128
  • Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa. Allen Lane Publishers, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84614-006-8. German: Dead Aid. Why development aid is not working and what can make Africa better. Translated from English by H. Lorenzen, Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942989-01-5
  • German: The Decline of the West. Do we have a chance in the new economic order?. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05376-1.
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