Indermit Gill | Chief Economist of the World Bank | Cambridge Union

An address & fireside chat with Chief Economist Indermit Gill; he discusses his career & outlook on the current state of economics in the United Kingdom..

Gill gives a short speech, followed by a conversation with Lent 2024 President Nick Davis, ending with an audience Q&A.
Hosted in the Debating Chamber on 15th March 2024 at 5pm.

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INDERMIT GILL

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group 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, labour 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.

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