Presider
Cofounder and President, PowerToFly; CFR Term Member
Dambisa Moyo discusses why corporations need boards that are more transparent, more knowledgeable, more diverse, and more deeply involved in setting the strategic course of the companies they lead. Her latest book,
How Boards Work, offers a road map for how boards can steer companies through tomorrow s challenges and ensure they thrive to benefit their employees, shareholders, and society at large.
Transcript
Merryn Somerset Webb: Hello, and welcome to the MoneyWeek magazine podcast. I am Merryn Somerset Webb, editor in chief of the magazine and with me today I have a special treat for you readers: Dambisa Moyo.
Dambisa is an economist and an author. Several of you – well not several of you, thousands of you – will have heard me talking to her before about her various books. I think the one we last discussed on this was
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing To Deliver Economic Growth. I think we did a quite a fun video on that one. And I also once talked to you about
Dr Priyamvada Gopal asked if she was right to think Dr Tony Sewell was not a Dr
She continued attacking the 62-year-old - asking where his doctorate was from
The professor of postcolonial studies later conceded that he did hold doctorate
But she made a bizarre reference to Adolf Hitler s propaganda chief Dr Goebbels
Cambridge said it profoundly disagreed with the gratuitous comment tonight
The chair of the government s race commission today dismissed ridiculous and offensive claims that it downplayed the evil of the slave trade.
The long-awaited study was branded a whitewash yesterday as it concluded there is little evidence of institutional racism in Britain.
Factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion were found to have more impact on life chances than racism.
And the authors were accused of trying to put a positive spin on slavery after they called on schools to use history lessons to tell the multiple, nuanced stories of the contributions made by different groups that have made this country the one it is today .