The Mapungubwe Annual Lecture is a flagship MISTRA event, providing intellectual discourse on global issues impacting on South Africa and the continent.

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Justin Yifu Lin under the theme: ‘China’s New Development Paradigm and Future Development under the Great Changes in the World Unseen in A Century’.

Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics; Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was a Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research  at Peking University. He is a Councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is the author of more than 20 books including Beating the Odds: Jump-starting Developing Countries; Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation; The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off; New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, and Demystifying the Chinese Economy. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.