Ian Goldin

While at CASBS, Ian Goldin will build the arguments and evidence for his next book which will be a highly interdisciplinary synthesis of key trends that are shaping global risk. This book aims to provide insights for readers on the management of risk at a time of rising complexity.

Goldin is professor of globalization and development at Oxford University and the founding director of the Oxford Martin School, the world’s leading center for interdisciplinary research into critical global challenges. He leads research groups on Technological and Economic Change, Future of Work and Future of Development. Goldin previously was World Bank vice president and the group’s director of policy and served on the World Bank executive and other key committees. Before joining the World Bank, he was chief executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and economic advisor to President Nelson Mandela.

Goldin has a BA (Hons) and BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, an AMP from INSEAD and an MA and Doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has published over 50 academic papers, including Why is Productivity Slowing Down? in the Journal of Economic Literature. The most recent of Goldin’s 25 books are Age of the City (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) and The Shortest History of Migration (Old Street Publishing, 2024).

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