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Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

My guest today was born in Zambia in 1969, six years after the country gained independence.

Growing up of her parents and sister, the family moved briefly to the States before she returned

to study chemistry at the university.

Following an attempted coup, the school's closed and my guest won a scholarship to study in the

States. Here she went on to work at the World Bank as a consultant. She continued her studies

in economics, and at Harvard, then a PhD at Oxford University. After academia, she returned

to banking, this time for the private sector at Goldman Sachs.

Now, my guest sits on the board of numerous companies and has written five books,

starting with dead aid why aid is not working, and how there is another way for Africa.

To her most recent one, Edge of Chaos, why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth and how to fix it.

Just last year, she received a life

peerage and now sits in the House of Lords. My guest today is Baroness Dambisa Moyo.

So thank you very much for coming into the office today, Danbisa. We ask everyone on this podcast

the same question to begin with, which is, was yours a happy childhood?

Thank you very much for including me and hosting me here today.

Yes, my childhood was incredibly happy.

I'm the first of four children.

We had the good fortune of having two parents who were very avant-garde for their time period.

We were being born and raised in Zambia and Southern Africa.

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