CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Jim O'Neill
Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2010-13) & Creator of the BRICs Acronym
Jim O'Neill is Chairman of the RSA's City Growth Commission in the UK, which was launched in October 2013. He also chairs the economic advisory board to the Greater Manchester Local Authority.
He is the Honorary Chair of Economics at Manchester University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the international economic think tank, Bruegel, and on the economic advisory board to the IFC, the investing arm of the World Bank.
Jim worked for Goldman Sachs from 1995 until April 2013, spending most of his time there as Chief Economist.
Before 1995, Jim had worked for Swiss Bank Corporation, Marine Midland Bank and Bank of America, starting in the City in 1982.
Jim is the creator of the acronym "BRICS" and has conducted much research about these and other emerging economies. He has published various books on the topic, including The BRIC Road to Growth (LPL, 2013), and has made a documentary series for the BBC entitled MINT: The Next Economic Giants. He writes frequently on these and many other international economic and financial topics, including regular columns for Bloomberg as well as the Daily Telegraph in the UK.
