Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo is the New York Times bestselling author of How the West Was Lost and Dead Aid. Born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia, Moyo completed a PhD in economics at Oxford University and holds a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She worked for the World Bank as a consultant, and also worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years. In 2009, Time magazine named her one of the "100 most influential people in the world." Her writing frequently appears in the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.