Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs.

She is the author of the New York Times Bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid is NotWorking 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 Rush for Resources and What it Means for the Rest of the World is scheduled for publication in 2012.

In 2009 Ms. Moyo was named by Time magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”, and was nominated 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 and the Wall Street Journal.

She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington D.C..