Greg Mills

Dr Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, established in 2005 by the Oppenheimer family to strengthen African economic performance. Before this he was the National Director of the SA Institute of International Affairs. He has directed numerous reform projects in Africa, and sat on the Danish Africa Commission and the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states. On the advisory board of the Royal United Services Institute, he is the author of the best-selling books Why Africa Is Poor and Africa’s Third Liberation, and together with President Olusegun Obasanjo, Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success. His writings have won him the Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction in South Africa. His latest books – Expensive Poverty – which suggests ways to improve development outcomes, was published in 2021, and The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan in 2022. He has made seven trips to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.