Economist and Author, Bulgaria Gregory Dahl is the author of „One World. One People. How Globalization is shaping our Future“.  After studying economics at Harvard, he pursued a 27-year career as an economist and senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

With the IMF he worked with top-level government officials in different areas of the globe to try to resolve economic problems and promote development. He has lived in Haïti, Sierra Leone, Bulgaria and Madagascar as the resident representative of the IMF, and has had first-hand experience with the practical dilemmas faced by leaders as well as their human and often moral shortcomings in dealing with those dilemmas.