Professor Ian Goldin on making the most of a globalised world

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Professor Ian Goldin on making the most of a globalised world

02 Jun 2011

Speakers: Ian Goldin

Director of the Oxford Martin School Ian Goldin discusses the challenges that humanity is currently facing in a rapidly expanding an interconnected world. His focus is on approach, and he draws on his own personal experience as vice-president of the World Bank to illustrate how t introspective approach to resolving these problems can result in bad decision making. He confides that he was part of a group of financiers who, according to him, thought they were the SAS of global finance management. But, he confessed, they messed up, they didn’t see it coming. Why? Because they weren’t looking at the “fundamental shifts” taking place in the world, namely an an explosion in hyper-connectivity and giant, global technological innovations. Goldin embraces these changes but wants to see them managed in the right ways “We need to ensure that this growth in our capacity, to think, to create, is one that benefits us all.” The approach needed is one of discarding old ways of thinking and reliance on old institutions, crossing boundaries, and harnessing new technologies, with a view to ultimately forging a “shared humanity”.