TOPIC
Talent is our future: How to do better at finding, mobilising and retaining African talent
In his presentation, Tyler Cowen considers how talent problems get solved, and what we can learn from such episodes. In particular, how do these problems have special relevance to an African and South African setting.
BIOGRAPHY
Named America’s “hottest economist” by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Tyler Cowen is the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the bestselling author of titles including The Great Stagnation, The Complacent Class, and most recently, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. In addition to his books, he also communicates economic ideas in academic journals including American Economic Review and publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Opinion. For nearly 20 years, he’s penned daily posts for his blog, Marginal Revolution, which is consistently ranked one of the best economic blogs on the internet. He is one of Foreign Policy‘s “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and an Economist survey counted him as one of the most influential economists of the last decade.
