Pi Evening - Jim O’Neill, Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs
Wednesday 8th October 6:00pm

Please join us for an evening drinks reception and presentation from Jim O’Neill, Managing Director and Head of Global Economic Research at Goldman Sachs on “Challenges for the World Economy”.  Jim is Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs, and has been in this position since September 2001. In this role, Jim oversees the firm’s economic research and the output of its team all around the world.  After a brief spell with Bank of America and International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank, in 1988 Jim joined Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). In 1991, he became Head of Research, globally for SBC. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in October 1995 as a Partner, Co-Head of Global Economics and Chief Currency Economist.  Jim is the creator of the acronym BRICs and, together with his colleagues, he has published much research about BRICs which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia India and China as the growth opportunities of the future.  Jim is a member of the board of the Royal Economic Society in the UK, of the European think tank Bruegel, and of Itinera, a Belgian think tank.  He is also a member of the UK-India Round Table.  Jim is one of the founding Trustees, as well as currently Chairman, of the educational charity SHINE (Support and Help in Education).