Rohinton P. Medhora is a Professor of Practice at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2012–2022). Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are monetary and trade policy, international economic relations, innovation strategies, and development economics.

Rohinton sat on The Lancet-Financial Times Commission Governing Health Futures 2030, and is a founding member of its successor the Digital Transformations for Health Lab. He is chair of the board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, vice-chair at the McLuhan Foundation and is on the advisory boards of the WTO Chairs Programme, UNU-MERIT and Global Health Centre. From 2021 to 2022, 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 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. 

In early 2025 Rohinton produced a three-part video series on new technologies, society and the economy, with the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

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