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Latest:

Ian Goldin: Ex- World Bank Official urges market diversity The South China Morning Post (17 July 2026)

Ian Goldin: Impact of US-Iran war on development The New York Times (23 June 2026)

G7 declaration: Empty words or real action, TVP World (17 June 2026)

Cities, Democracy and Immigration, CASBS, Stanford University (6 May 2026)

Ian Goldin, Counting the cost of supply chain disruption, Al Jazeera (11 April 2026)

Can We End Global Poverty? with Former Nelson Mandela Advisor Ian Goldin, Moving Europe Podcast (18 September 2025)

Facing the Future: Globalisation, AI & Migration, Central Asian University Podcast (11 August 2025)

Tariffs, Trade & Globalisation w/ Ian Goldin & James Fraser, Talks of the Trade (17 July 2025)

Why is productivity slowing down—and what does it mean for growth?, Top of the Agenda (14 July 2025)

A Moving History, Finance & Development (2 June 2025)

How to navigate an entangled future, with Ian Goldin, The Web of Us (14 May 2025)

What’s the Key to a Balanced Immigration System?, The Agenda, TVOToday (14 May 2025)

Could Humans Have Survived Without Migration?, The Agenda, TVO (13 May 2025)

Who will win the US-China trade war?, Counting the Cost, Al Jazeera (17 April 2025)

Ian Goldin on the Transformation of Globalisation, LBC with Ben Kentish (7 April 2025)

Could US tariffs cause lasting damage to the global economy?, Al Jazeera (7 April 2025)

Ian Goldin on Global Trade, Al Jazeera (20 February 2025)

The Future: Politics, Economics and the Environment in the Age of Uncertainty, University of Helsinki (13 February 2025)

The Truth About Migration, Project Syndicate (10 January 2025)

What lies ahead for the global economy in 2025?, Counting the Cost, Al Jazeera (3 January 2025)

Kharkiv Economic Strategy, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) (2 December 2024) Also available in Ukrainian.

Kharkiv Economic Strategy Press Release, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) (2 December 2024)

Migration, politics and economics, London School of Economics (24 October 2024)

Migration Matters, discussion with David Aaronovitch, Kite Festival (6 October 2024)

The Future of Sustainable Cities, TAEJAE Future Consensus Institute (30 September 2024)

How Big Cities Will Make or Break Our Future, The Great Tech Game, with Anirudh Suri (18 September 2024)

Channel Crossings | Busting the Gangs ‘Won’t Stop Boats’ with Andrew Marr on LBC (18 September 2024)

25th World Knowledge Forum closes with calls for coexistence, Pulse (13 September 2024)

The Era of Entanglement, Pulse (12 September 2024)

Save the cities, fix the planet – Ian Goldin on the power and plight of our cities, The Solutionists (03 September 2024)

Ian Goldin: Is migration a drag or a driver of progress?, BBC Radio (12 August 2024)

BBC HARDTalk Interview on Migration, BBC TV (4 August 2024)

The History of Migration with Ian Goldin, Newstalk (23 July 2024)

Ian Goldin on the History and Future of Cities, Charter Cities Institute (18 July 2024)

Re-humanising migration: From the geopolitical to the personal, and back again , The Climate Briefing (10 July 2024)

Don’t believe the headlines: 22 facts that prove migration benefits all of us, Big Issue (4 July 2024)

Setting the Record Straight on Migration, Big Issue (1 July 2024)

Ian Goldin joins James O’Brien , LBC (21 June 2024)

‘Guardian best paperback of the month’, The Guardian (6 June 2024)

Ian Goldin interviewed by Andrew Marr, LBC on migration, (4 June 2024)

Celebrating cities as spaces of diversity and dynamism, Sunday Times ZA (17 April 2024)

Soaring global inequality has the makings of a “political and social time bomb”, RTE Radio, (20 March 2024)

Why is productivity slowing down? Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis, Francois Lafond, Julian Winkler, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 62, No. 1, (March 2024)

New Cities, Domus (February 2024)

How cities made us — and shape our future, Financial Times (28 December 2023)

Ian Goldin: Waves of Change, New Constellations (24 November 2023)

FT Best Books of 2023 – Economics, Financial Times (15 November 2023)

Oxford Martin School researchers explore Generative AI’s impact, Oxford Martin School (25 September 2023)

The age of the city has not ended–but its inequality is fueling the backlash against metropolitan elites, Fortune (20 September 2023)

Wird die Zukunft in unseren Städten entschieden? (Will the future be decided in our cities?), 48 Forward (7 September 2023)

“Why the Wealth of the Nation lies in our Biggest Cities”, The Scotsman (3 July 2023)

City Talks: The Cauldrons of the Future, Centre for Cities (29 June 2023)

“How to Reduce the Damage Done by Gentrification”, The Guardian (29 June 2023)

World Business Report, BBC News (28 June 2023)

Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together, Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin, (22 June 2023)

“Cities are central to our future – they have the power to make, or break, society’s advances”, The Conversation (22 June 2023)

Book talk: ‘Age of the City: why our future will be won or lost together’ with Prof Ian Goldin, Oxford Martin School (16 June 2023)

The Death of Globalisation?, BBC Analysis (27 Feb and 5 March 2023)

Urban Rebirth: Economic Considerations for Reconstruction in Kharkiv and Ukraine, Edward Glaeser and Ian Goldin (December 2022)

Europe under intense pressure, Ian Goldin Opinion Piece, Los Angeles Times (18 September 2022)

‘Demography is not destiny’, Financial Times (8 August 2022)

‘Why is productivity slowing down?’, Journal of Economic Literature (17 June 2022)

Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World’, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (15 March 2022)

‘Talking about radical change with Ian Goldin’, Thinking the Unthinkable Podcast with Nik Gowing (9 February 2022)

‘Demographic changes as China’s birth rate drops to record low’, Al Jazeera (17 January 2022)

Getting ready for the 100-year life: Rethink Population, BBC Radio 4 (7 January 2022)

Is Demography Destiny?: Rethink Population, BBC Radio 4 (3 January 2022)

‘Citi GPS : Can Productivity Reduce Risks of a Debt Ratchet?’, Global Insights, Citigroup (29 December 2021)

Inequality is polarizing the world, The World Today (3 December 2021)

Covid-19 has made fighting inequality more critical than ever, Financial Times (6 September 2021)

Impacts of COVID-19: global systems with Ian Goldin, Frontiers Policy Labs Podcast (7 June 2021)

From Global Crisis to a Better World, TED Talk (29 June 2021)

Fire, tsunami, pandemic: how to ensure societies learn lessons from disaster – podcast (from 27:45), The Conversation Weekly (24 June 2021)

Bridges to the future, Royal Society for Arts (22 June 2021)

How the pandemic could save us, VoxEU (20 June 2021)

The future of globalisation, CNBC Squawk Box (16 June 2021)

Rescue by Ian Goldin — Covid crisis as catalyst, Financial Times (9 June 2021)

‘Business as usual’ will only bring us more pandemics, this Oxford economist says, Fortune (7 June 2021)

Biography

Professor Ian Goldin is Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Oxford Martin Research Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, Future of Work and Future of Development. He is a Professorial Fellow at the University’s Balliol College. From 2006 to 2016 he was the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School.