Dambisa Moyo - Awards and Memberships

Awards and Memberships

In 2013, Moyo was awarded the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the Nobel Prize winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Friedrich Hayek. Moyo was also a participant at the Bilderberg Conference and was named by TIME Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

In 2009 Moyo was also honoured by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders. In September 2009 Moyo was featured in Oprah Winfrey's power list of 20 remarkable visionaries. The Daily Beast selected Moyo as one of "150 Extraordinary Women Who Shake The World".

Moyo serves on the board of Barclays Bank, SABMiller, and Barrick Gold. She has done numerous speaking engagements at organizations including: OECD, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Council on Foreign Relations, American Enterprise Institute and the 2009 Munk Debates as well as most of the G7 countries, and has travelled to more than 50 countries over the last decade. She is a speaker at the 2013 TEDGlobal conference and spoke at TEDxBrussels in 2009 and 2010.

Moyo is a regular contributor to financial journals such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. She is a contributing editor to CNBC and has appeared as a guest on other networks such as CNN, Bloomberg, BBC and Fox Business. She was a Patron of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a hedge fund-supported children’s charity.