Dambisa Moyo, is a Zambian born economist and author. She achieved a chemistry degree and MBA at Washington DC's American University, a doctorate in economics from Oxford University and a masters from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government before working as a consultant at the World Bank and then for nearly a decade at Goldman.
Her first book, Dead Aid, angered many in the charity sector by arguing that foreign aid has harmed Africa and should be phased out.
Her second, which is published in London on Thursday, accuses America and other Western powers of squandering their world economic dominance through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed policies.
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead goes so far as to predict that the US will be a "bona fide socialist welfare state" by the latter part of this century.
To see the full BBC Newsnight Interview please click here - Dambisa Moyo is featured from 39:10
