Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo is an economist and the author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa, published in the spring of 2009. The book offers proposals for developing countries to finance development, instead of relying on foreign aid. It became a New York Times bestseller upon its release in the United States and remains a bestseller amongst Political and Economic books. Her book is published internationally by Penguin Books and in the United States by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

In April 2009, TIME Magazine named Moyo one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Moyo was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She also has an MBA in Finance and Bachelors degree in Chemistry from American University in Washington D.C. She worked for the World Bank for 2 years as a Consultant (from 1993-1995) and at Goldman Sachs for 8 years (from 2001 to 2008), where she worked in the debt capital markets and as an economist in the global macroeconomics team.
Moyo’s second book entitled How the West Was Lost is scheduled for publication with Penguin and Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Spring 2010. The book evaluates the policy decisions in the US and other Western economies that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and examines the policies of the newest economic powers—China, Russia and the Middle East—who may now be in pole positions to become the dominant economic players of the 21st century. Read more here/source