Jim O’Neill

Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Chairman, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance

 

Jim is currently Chairing a formal Review into AMR (antimicrobial resistance) which will continue through to the Spring of 2016, when recommendations will be made as to how to solve this global challenge. Until October 2014, Jim chaired the Cities Growth Commission in the UK, when it provided its final recommendations. 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 “BRIC” and has conducted much research about these and other emerging economies. He has published various books on the topic, and 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 and other leading international media. He is a member of the newly formed Africapitalism Institute’s Global Advisory Board. He is one of the founding trustees of the UK educational charity, SHINE. Jim also serves on the Advisory Board of the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF), and is on the boards of the Sutton Trust, Teach for All and a number of other charities specialising in education. In September 2013, Jim became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Government’s Department for Education. Jim served as a non-executive director of Manchester United before it returned to private ownership in 2005. Jim earned BA and MA degrees in economics from Sheffield University in 1978 and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1982. He has honorary degrees from the Institute of Education, University of London, for his educational philanthropy, from City University for his services to banking and finance, and from Sheffield University in recognition of his contribution to international economics.