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Former vice-president of the World Bank Professor Ian Goldin looks at the challenges facing the world as a consequence of rapid globalisation. The deeper interconnections brought about by urbanisation, development of technology and the rise of the Internet have brought great advantages, but, Goldin argues, they also bring new challenges that spill across national boundaries. He asks whether existing structures like the UN and the World Bank can deal with climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security and migration, or whether we a radical new approach.

Goldin is director of the University of Oxford’s Oxford Martin School. Between 2001 and 2006 he worked at the World Bank first as director of policy and then as vice-president. He has published 15 books including Globalisation for Development: Meeting new Challenges.