Since 2009, commodity prices have increased over 150%. Dambisa Moyo reveals how commodity scarcity is one of the biggest challenges the world will face over the next decade, leading to higher commodity prices, increased risk of commodity-related conflicts (already there are 25 on-going conflicts around the world with their origins in commodities), and a notable decline in living standards. She details how insatiable commodity demand emanating from a rising global population, increasing wealth, particularly in the emerging world, and rapid urbanization, will outstrip the worlds resource supply of arable land, water, energy and minerals. She explains how forecasts for technology innovations, substitutes (such as shale and non-fossil fuels – solar, wind, nuclear) are overestimated and overly optimistic, and how their risks are not adequately understood. In this context she will discuss how and which specific commodities investors ought to buy versus sell across tradable (energy, minerals) and non-tradable (land, water) commodities, which are all scarce, finite and depleting.
Developing countries – where 90 percent of the world lives – are at a crossroads. They are facing a choice between the US model of democracy and private capitalism or the Chinese model of state capitalism and no democracy. Dr. Moyo explains why, in the eyes of many people and policymakers who live across the emerging world, the Western model is under threat, and why the model adopted by China offers a compelling option. With over 70 percent of the population under the age of 25 years across developing countries, there is a growing momentum to focus on delivering economic outcomes and improvements in living standards and de• prioritizing efforts in support of democracy. Dambisa Moyo explains why this pivot is under way, the consequences for geo-politics and global economics, and what the US and the West must do in the face of the choice to compete or cooperate with these emerging economic and political trends.
Dambisa Moyo is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Global Growth Outlook, Unpacking Technology, Investment Themes in a De-globalizing World, Democracy Under Siege: Timelines and Policy Trajectory after Trump and BREXIT, The Coming Global Commodity Crisis and Schism: The Coming Economic & Political Paradigm. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dambisa Moyo for your event is available upon request. Dambisa Moyo generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Joseph Stiglitz, Sallie Krawcheck, Ian Bremmer, Jason Schenker and Carla Harris. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dambisa Moyo for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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