Dambisa Moyo: How Boards Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

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10:00am-11:00am CT

11:00-am-12:00pm ET

In her new book How Boards Work, prizewinning economist and veteran board director. Dambisa Moyo argues that corporations need boards that are more transparent, more knowledgeable, more diverse, and more involved in setting the strategic course of the companies they lead. How Boards Work offers a road map for how boards can steer companies through tomorrow's challenges and ensure they thrive to benefit their employees, shareholders, and society at large.

About The Speaker:

Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas.

Dambisa has earned a strong reputation as a top-tier opinion former and trusted advisor on Macroeconomics, Geopolitics, Technology and Millennial themes. She is a Board member of The 3M Company and Chevron. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford, a Masters from Harvard, and is recognized for fresh and innovative ideas as the 

Author of four (4) New York Times Bestselling Books:

-Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It (2018) -Winner Take All: China’s race for Resources and What it Means for the World (2012) -How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead (2011) -Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa (2009)

Dambisa is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and member of the Bretton Woods Committee.

Dambisa was named to the list of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World; has published in the Financial Times, WSJ, Barrons, Harvard Business Review and has travelled to over 65 countries. In her spare time, she runs marathons and practices Pilates.