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Ian Goldin previously was Vice President and Director of Policy at the World Bank. From 1995 to 2001 Ian was Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Mandela. Before that he was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Director of Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development at the OECD Development Centre in Paris.
Ian Goldin has a BSc and BA (Hons) degree from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, an AMP from INSEAD and an MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He has been knighted (Chevalier) by France, nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and published multiple books, including Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges (Oxford University Press) and Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future (Princeton University Press) and his best-selling The Economics of Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press).