March 20, 2027

Baroness Dambisa Moyo

Tectonic Shifts in Global Trade

Navigate the fault lines of a fracturing global economy with the economist and geopolitical strategist who has spent her career mapping exactly where the tremors lead.

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Tectonic Shifts in Global Trade

March 20, 2027

The ground beneath the global economy is shifting, and the tremors are being felt everywhere. Supply chains are remapping, alliances are fracturing, and competition for resources and capital is reaching a new intensity, all against a backdrop of deep uncertainty about what comes next. Dr. Dambisa Moyo, economist, bestselling author, and member of the UK’s House of Lords, has spent her career mapping these fault lines. With profound expertise in macroeconomics and geopolitics, she will dissect the forces driving today’s trade realignments and offer an unflinching assessment of where the global economy is headed and what we all stand to gain or lose in the process.

Format: Speech with Audience Q&A

“The world we’ve been living in, where democratic, capitalistic states dominate, is a historical aberration…If we look at the political and economic environment that has dominated the last 50 years as our best guide for what’s going to happen in the next 50 years, I think we’re going to find ourselves in a lot of trouble.”
– Baroness Dambisa Moyo

About Baroness Dambisa Moyo

Dr. Dambisa Moyo is an economist, author, and member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords. Her work focuses on macroeconomics, geopolitics, and global financial markets.

She has been recognized by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People” in the world and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Moyo has authored five books on the global economy. Four became New York Times bestsellers: “Dead Aid,” which argues that government-to-government foreign aid harms rather than helps African economies; “How the West Was Lost,” which examines structural economic decline in Western nations; “Winner Take All,” which analyzes China’s global pursuit of natural resources; and “Edge of Chaos,” which addresses the relationship between democratic governance and economic growth. Her fifth book, “How Boards Work,” was ranked among the Wall Street Journal’s top business books of the year.

She currently serves on the boards of Chevron, the National Geographic Society, and the Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee, and is a principal of Versaca Investments, a family office focused on global growth investing. She is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Bretton Woods Committee, and an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.

Born in Lusaka, Zambia, Moyo holds degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant at the World Bank and as a research economist and strategist at Goldman Sachs.

Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and the Harvard Business Review.