Rohinton Medhora

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Rohinton P. Medhora has served on INET’s Board since 2012 and is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) (2012–2022). He also served on CIGI’s former International Board of Governors from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are monetary and trade policy, international economic relations, and development economics.

Rohinton also sits on The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 and on INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. In addition, he is Vice-Chair at the McLuhan Foundation and on the advisory boards of the WTO Chairs Programme, UNU-MERIT, and the Global Health Centre. In 2021-22, Rohinton chaired the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee. Since 2022, he also served on the Board of Partnership for Economic Policy.

Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. In addition to his Ph.D., Rohinton earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto, where he majored in economics. He has published extensively in professional and non-technical journals and has published several books: Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2001) and Financial Reform in Developing Countries (Macmillan, 1998), which he co-edited with José Fanelli. In 2013, he was co-editor of Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, which is volume 27 in the influential Canada Among Nations book series. In 2014, he co-edited International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press) and Crisis and Reform: Canada and the International Financial System, which is volume 28 in the Canada Among Nations book series.

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What Has the World Learned from COVID-19? So Far, Not Nearly Enough

Article | Sep 12, 2023

By all accounts infection rates have ebbed. But were we good or were we lucky?

As the Ukraine War Drags On, It’s Time to Reassess the Impacts of Sanctions

Article | Aug 2, 2023

The bundle of sanctions was initially designed and imposed in haste, with little basis to assess historic performance.

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Article | Jul 30, 2021

In 2021, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) celebrates 20 years of contributing research and expert analysis to global policy making.

Restoring Public Good — Now and for the Future

Article | May 5, 2021

Restoring faith in governance and public action is itself a public good that would prepare us for a whole myriad of challenges on the horizon

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Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics (MYM)

Event Conference | Feb 20–22, 2024

Challenges And Emerging Perspectives

One Earth, One Family, One Future

Podcasts Nov 2, 2023

Rohinton Medhora (INET’s Board Chair, member of our Commission on Global Economic Transformation, and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI) discusses global social healing, India and the G20 with INET President Rob Johnson.

Rohinton Medhora Appointed INET Board Chair

News Oct 4, 2022

Medhora has served on INET’s Board since 2012 and is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

INET Live | Climate Debates

September 21, 2021 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET & September 22, 2021 9:00am - 12:00pm ET

Event Conference | Sep 21–22, 2021

Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades about the severe global impact that rising temperatures will have on the environment, economies, health outcomes, and ultimately humanity’s long-term survival. Yet little has been done.