Professor Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University. He delivered a speech entitled "Individual and Collective Wisdom and Failure".

Ian was previously Vice President of the World Bank and its Director of Development Policy after serving as advisor to President Mandela and Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

He has a BSc and BA(Hons) from UCT, MSc from LSE and Doctorate from Oxford University. He has published 17 books, his most recent being Divided Nations (Oxford), Exceptional People on Migration (Princeton) and Globalisation for Development (Oxford) and has been knighted by the French Government.