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Africa, especially Senegal. He has served as a consultant for many international
organizations such as UNCTAD, WTO, FAO, the World Bank, UNECA, the West
African Economic and Monetary Union, and the Senegalese government.
John McArthur
Visiting Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program and Africa Growth
Initiative, The Brookings Institution
John McArthur is simultaneously a senior fellow with the UN Foundation and a
senior fellow with the Fung Global Institute. An international development economist,
he was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Promise, the leading
international non-governmental organization solely committed to supporting the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by
2015. He was also a faculty member at Columbia University’s School of International
and Public Affairs and a research scholar at the University’s Earth Institute, where
he also served as Policy Director. From 2002-06 he served as a manager and then
Deputy Director of the United Nations Millennium Project, and was lead editor of
that Project’s final report, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve
the Millennium Development Goals. He earned a BA at the University of British
Columbia, a Master’s in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government, and an MPhil and DPhil in Economics at Oxford University, which he
attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Mthuli Ncube
Chief Economist and Vice President, African Development Bank
Mthuli Ncube oversees the African Development Bank’s Economics Complex,
which focuses on knowledge management within the Bank and with its partners,
and guides the general economic strategic direction of the Bank. In this regard,
he looks after the Development Research Division, Statistics Division, and African
Development Institute, all of whose directors report to him. Before joining the Bank,
he was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management at the University
of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa, having previously served
as Dean and Professor of Finance at Wits Business School. He has extensive
experience as an investment banker, and was founding Chairman of Barbican and
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