Rohinton P. Medhora has served on INET鈥檚 Board since 2012 and is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) (2012鈥�2022). He also served on CIGI鈥檚 former International Board of Governors from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada鈥檚 International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are monetary and trade policy, international economic relations, and development economics.
Rohinton also sits on The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on and on INET鈥檚 Commission on Global 福利导航 Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. In addition, he is Vice-Chair at the McLuhan Foundation and on the advisory boards of the , , and the . In 2021-22, Rohinton chaired the . Since 2022, he also served on the Board of
Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. In addition to his Ph.D., Rohinton earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Toronto, where he majored in economics. He has published extensively in professional and non-technical journals and has published several books: Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2001) and Financial Reform in Developing Countries (Macmillan, 1998), which he co-edited with Jos茅 Fanelli. In 2013, he was co-editor of Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, which is volume 27 in the influential Canada Among Nations book series. In 2014, he co-edited International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press) and Crisis and Reform: Canada and the International Financial System, which is volume 28 in the Canada Among Nations book series.
