We're delighted to welcome Dr Raymond Gilpin to discuss developments policies in Africa.
Raymond Gilpin is an economist with 28 years of experience working with national governments, private sector firms, and multilateral institutions on four continents. His work has focused on macroeconomic policy and natural resource governance with an emphasis on the mining sector. He has researched and served in advisory capacities for mining projects across Africa, as well as in Afghanistan and Myanmar. Over the years he has served as a director at the Central Bank of Sierra Leone, senior economist at the African Development Bank, economics director at the United States Institute of Peace, international director at Intellibridge Corporation, dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the U.S. National Defense University, and Chief Economist for Africa at the UN Development Programme in New York.
Dr Gilpin is widely published, a featured media commentator, and has testified before the U.S. Senate. He was inducted into the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars at the historic Morehouse College in Atlanta in 2015 in recognition of his work on economics and peace. He holds a doctorate from Cambridge University in the UK.
The event is part of the Africa's Potential series, carried out at the School of Transnational Governance, as part of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) funded by the European Commission, and is open to the EUI community, YALP alumni and the YALP network.
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