Speaker:

Professor Ian Goldin
Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford,
Professorial Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University,
Director, Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change and Future of Development

Date & Time:

Friday, 18 June 2021
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (Singapore Time)

Video recording:

Please visit EAI’s YouTube channel for a video recording of the lecture.

Abstract:

The wrecking-ball of COVID-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a rebounce. Professor Goldin will show why this is a dangerous idea, as it is business as usual which has led to the pandemic and to an increasingly divided and risky future.

Professor Goldin will demonstrate how the crisis has accelerated trends, including in the shift of the global economic centre of gravity to Asia and the increasing digitalisation and automation of economies. He will explore how this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War had forged the ideas behind the creation of the welfare state, United Nations and new international institutions which laid the foundations for social and economic reforms, and changing the world for the better.

Professor Goldin will highlight the lasting challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, ranging from globalisation to the future of jobs, income inequality and geopolitics, the climate crisis and the future of cities. He will identify the pandemic’s lasting economic, political and other implications for China and East Asia.  He will base his talk on his new book Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, providing an urgently needed roadmap that reveals how the pandemic has changed all our lives and economies and why it could lead to a better world.

About the Speaker:

Ian Goldin is Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, Director of the Oxford Martin Programmes on Technological and Economic Change and the Future of Development, and from 2006-2016 was the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School.

Professor Goldin has a MSc from the London School of Economics and a MA and Doctorate from the University of Oxford. From 1996 to 2001, he was concurrently the chief executive and managing director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. From 2001 to 2006, Professor Goldin was vice president of the World Bank and the Group’s director of policy. Previously, he served as principal economist at the EBRD and director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre.

Professor Goldin has been knighted by the French government and received numerous awards. He has published over 60 journal articles and 23 books. His most recent is Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World. His previous books include Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance and The Butterfly Defect: Why Globalization Creates Systemic Risks and What to Do, in which he predicted that a pandemic was the most likely cause of the next financial crisis. Other books include Development: A Very Short Introduction and Is the Planet Full?. He has authored and presented three BBC Documentary Series: After The Crash, Will AI Kill Development? and The Pandemic that Changed the World. He has provided advisory services to the IMF, UN, EU, OECD and has served as a non-executive director on six globally listed companies. He is chair of the core-econ.org initiative to transform economics.

His twitter address is @ian_goldin and website https://iangoldin.org/.