Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo

Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo

Zambian-born economist (born February 1969)

Dambisa Felicia Moyo, Baroness Moyo (born 2 February 1969) is a Zambian-born economist and author, known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. She has written five books, including four New York Times bestsellers: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (2009), How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices that Lie Ahead (2011), Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (2012), Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It (2018), and How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World (2021).2

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Born Feb 2, 1969.1

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedSt Antony's College3
  • Date not recordedAmerican University3
  • Date not recordedKogod School of Business3
  • Date not recordedHarvard University public administration3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Oxford Doctor of Philosophy3
  • Date not recordedJohn F. Kennedy School of Government3

Moyo was born in 1969 in Lusaka, Zambia. She spent some of her childhood in the United States, while her father was pursuing his post graduate education, then returned to Zambia.

She studied chemistry at the University of Zambia, and completed her BS in chemistry in 1991 at American University in Washington, D.C. via a scholarship. She received an MBA in finance from the university in 1993.

She acquired a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2002 she received a DPhil in economics from St Antony's College, Oxford University, where she was elected an Honorary Fellow in 2026.

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Career

Occupation: economist, writer.8

World Bank and Goldman Sachs

Following her MBA, Moyo worked at the World Bank from May 1993 to September 1995. She was a consultant in the bank's Europe, Central Asia and Africa departments, and was one of the 20 contributing authors to the World Bank's 1994 annual World Development Report.

After pursuing her MPA and PhD, Moyo joined Goldman Sachs as a research economist and strategist in 2001. She was with the company until November 2008, working mainly in debt capital markets, hedge funds coverage, and global macroeconomics. Part of her tenure at Goldman Sachs was spent advising developing countries on the issuing of bonds on the international market. She was also head of economic research and strategy for sub-Saharan Africa.

Board memberships

After leaving Goldman Sachs, Moyo joined the board of directors of the international brewer SABMiller in 2009. She is also a former board member of Barclays Bank, the international mining company Barrick Gold, 3M, and data storage company Seagate Technology.

As of 2025, she is on the boards of directors of National Geographic, Chevron Corporation, Condé Nast. and the Starbucks Corporation.

Moyo is also a former board member of the charities Lundin for Africa and Room to Read.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Global Economic Imbalances, The Trilateral Commission, and the Bretton Woods Committee.

In June 2026, Moyo was named Chair of The Economic Club of New York.

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Journalism and public speaking

Moyo is a public speaker, commentator, and columnist. She has written for international financial and economic journals, periodicals, and publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, and Time.

She has lectured at financial and economic summits, forums, and conferences, including the annual World Economic Forum conference in Davos, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise Institute, the annual Bilderberg Conference, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Aspen Institute, and the Ambrosetti Forum. She also speaks at venues including TEDTalks and BBC's HARDtalk, and is a commentator on business-news television networks.

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

Moyo's fifth book, How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World was released in 2021. It provides an insider's perspective of corporate boards, reassesses the three-part board mandate, and calls for more transparent, knowledgeable, and diverse boards to steer companies through 21st-century challenges. The Financial Times stated that the book would be "highly instructive for aspiring non-executives" and provided "thoughtful analysis and reform proposals against which boardroom sophisticates can usefully test their assumptions".

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Personal life

  • BornFeb 2, 1969, Lusaka9
  • CitizenshipZambia10
  • ResidenceNew York City11

In December 2020 Moyo married billionaire Jared Smith, co-founder of Utah-based cloud computing company Qualtrics.

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Awards

  • 2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences12 13

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