Rohinton P. Medhora is the former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and a Professor of Practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Dr. Medhora served on The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 and is a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation. He is the chair of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, vice-chair at the McLuhan Foundation, Board member of Partnership for Economic Policy and is on the advisory boards of the WTO Chairs Programme, UNU-MERIT and Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. He earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto, where he majored in economics.