In How Boards Work, Dr. Dambisa Moyo addresses fundamental and urgent questions like whether corporate boards remain the ideal governance structure in the 21st century; how boards should address financial shareholder versus stakeholder capitalism, and balance profit motives with growing broader expectations of society; and how best to tackle 21st century challenges from post-COVID economic recovery to digitization to deglobalization.
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a co-principal of Versaca Investments - a family office, focused on growth investing globally. She serves on a number of global corporate boards including: 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Conde Nast, as well as, the Oxford University Endowment investment committee. Her areas of interest are on capital allocation, risk, and ESG matters. She is the author of four New York Times bestselling books. Moyo holds a PhD in economics from Oxford University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.
Darren Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation, a $14 billion international social justice philanthropy. As a leading voice on the need to address inequality, he is a member of Governor Cuomo’s Reimagining New York Commission and co-chair of NYC Census 2020. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to the city of Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation became the first non-profit in US history to issue a $1 billion designated social bond in US capital markets for proceeds to strengthen and stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19.
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