The Case for a New Development Paradigm in Africa

UMD’s Alworth Institute for International Studies hosts Dr. Raymond Gilpin, chief economist and head of the strategy, analysis and research team at the Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Program, for an in-person lecture in UMD Life Science 175 and via Zoom at z.umn.edu/GilpinS22. Gilpin will offer “The Case for a New Development Paradigm in Africa,” a perspective on the continent’s economic future and the role the United States might play.

At UNDP, Gilpin provides leadership on all matters related to economic analysis, strategy and research in UNDP’s Africa bureau, and manages the bureau’s network of economists. Prior to joining UNDP he was the academic dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington D.C. and economics director at the United States Institute of Peace, where he also chaired the taskforce on business and peace and managed the web-based International Network for Economics and Conflict. He has also worked at the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the Central Bank of Sierra Leone, where he served as research director. He was inducted into the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars at the historic Morehouse College in Atlanta in 2015 in recognition of his work on economics and peace. He holds a doctorate in development economics from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

This lecture is part of the series, “The World Beyond Our Borders,” sponsored with the College of St. Scholastica and funded in part by the Global Awareness Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and with support UMD’s African and African American Studies Program and the League of Women Voters of Duluth.