Board Chair
Professor of Practice Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University Canada
Rohinton P. Medhora is a Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre, where he had a hand in developing the precursor program to PEP, called the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies. His fields of expertise are innovation strategies, monetary and trade policy, international economic relations, and development economics.
Rohinton sat on The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030, and is a founding member of its successor the Digital Transformations for Health Lab. He is chair of the international advisory board of UNU-MERIT and sits on the academic advisory board of the WTO Chairs Programme. He was also a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation and chaired the board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. In 2021-22, Rohinton chaired the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee.
Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught. He has published extensively in professional and non-technical journals and has produced several books: Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2001) and Financial Reform in Developing Countries (Macmillan, 1998), which he co-edited with José Fanelli. In 2013, he was co-editor of Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, which is volume 27 in the 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. In May 2025 he produced a three-part video series on the governance of new technologies with the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.
Rohinton Medhora is the Chair of the Board of the Partnership for Economic Policy.
