An Evening with Jim O'Neill, Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs
Tuesday 20th October 6:30pm, Mayfair

’A GLOBAL ECONOMIC UPDATE’

Pi is delighted to host a cocktail reception with Jim O’Neill, Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs in support of the charity SHINE.

Jim will be our guest speaker for the evening and will be giving us a Global Economic Update.

Jim is head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research for Goldman Sachs. In this role, Jim manages the firm’s economics, strategy and commodity research as well as the output of these teams around the world. He was named head of Global Economics Research in 2001. Jim joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as a partner, co-head of Global Economics Research and chief currency economist.  Prior to joining the firm, Jim was headof research, globally, for Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1991 to 1995. He joined SBC in 1988. Prior to that, he was with Bank of America and International Treasury Management, a division of Marine Midland Bank.  Jim is the creator of the acronym BRICs. 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 boards of the Royal Economic Society in the UK, Bruegel and Itinera. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table and the UKIBC. Jim is chairman and one of the founding trustees of the London-based charity SHINE. He sits on the board of a number of other charities, primarily specializing in education.  Jim served as a non-executive director of Manchester United before it returned to private ownership in 2005.

Jim earned a degree in economics from Sheffield University in 1978 and a PhD from the University of Surrey in 1982. He received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of  Education, University of London, in 2009 for his educational philanthropy.

SHINE supports educational projects that work with disadvantaged, disengaged and challenged children across London and beyond.  Their programmes give children the extra support and attention they need to learn the basic but essential tools for life.  They also support projects that help talented children from poorer neighbourhoods to recognise, and then realise their full potential.  Since August 2000 SHINE has made grants of nearly £8million to help almost 14,000 children from over 460 schools in London and Manchester.

www.shinetrust.org.uk   

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Kate Lewis

kl@picapital.co.uk

020 7529 5664