How to Green the Global Economy: Indermit Gill (Chief Economist of the World Bank) in Conversation with Kamiar Mohaddes
Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank and Senior Vice President for Development Economics.
Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he helped shape the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.
Gill led the World Bank's influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries—among other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality.
Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Kamiar Mohaddes is an Associate Professor in Economics & Policy at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA programme. He is also a Fellow in Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, where he co-founded and directs the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab. His main areas of research include climate change, economics of the Middle East, energy economics and applied macroeconomics.
His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge) as well as in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in major international news outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Kamiar’s work has been cited extensively by policymakers, including members of the United States Congress and the White House.
He is currently a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank and has previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada, a consultant at the United Nations, a consultant at the Asian Development Bank and a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund to name a few. He has worked closely with colleagues at these institutions to, for instance, develop tools to help examine and disentangle the size and speed of the transmission of different global, regional, and national macroeconomic shocks. Kamiar has also worked extensively on issues related to climate change and sustainability with a number of organisations including BCG, BNP Paribas, KPMG and RMS.
This event is organised together with the Economics & Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
WHEN: Wednesday 13 March 2024
5.30 pm – 6.00 pm: Wine reception and networking in Provost’s Lodge
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Fireside discussion in Provost’s Drawing Room
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge
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