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Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin

Founding Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford and Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford.

Ian Goldin is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, the Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change and the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy, after serving as Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela.

Ian has published 21 books, including Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance; The Butterfly Defect: How Globalisation Creates Systemic Risks and What to Do; Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing and What Can Be Done.

He is a highly acclaimed speaker, and in addition to his regular engagements with leading speaking agencies and as a lecturer at Oxford, Harvard and other top Universities, has presented the opening keynote at Google Zeitgeist, at the Microsoft CEO forum, at TED, and for the past 21 years has provided keynotes at the WEF Davos meetings.