Jim O‘Neill
Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development
Jim was a Visiting Research Fellow to Bruegel. He conducted research on aspects of changing global trade, global governance, and measuring better and targeting higher sustainable economic growth.
Lord Jim O’Neill is Chair of Chatham House. His previous roles include Joint Head of Research (1995–2000), Chief Economist (2001–2010) and Chairman of the Asset Management Division (2010–2013) at Goldman Sachs; creator of the acronym BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China); Chair of the City Growth Commission (2014); Chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (2014–2016); and Commercial Secretary to the Treasury (2015–2016). He is a board member and a founding trustee of the educational charity SHINE. Lord O’Neill was made a Life Peer in 2015 and serves as a crossbench member of the House of Lords. He is an honorary professor of economics at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and holds honorary degrees from the University of Sheffield, University of Manchester, University of London and from City University London (United Kingdom). He received his doctorate from the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), where he is now a visiting professor.
Featured work
What to expect from the BRICS expansion
The evolution of the grouping alongside the changing dynamics of political economy.
The G7 is dead, long live the G7
The summit in Charlevoix left behind a Group of Seven in complete disarray. The authors think that the G-group, in its current formulation, no longer
Pessimistic views of China’s economy are unconvincing
In late 2001, I first used the phrase BRIC to discuss the likely rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China as growing shares of the world economy and ou
Realizing the Indian dream
It is probably too early to say with certainty that India will soon take its place as the world's third largest economy, behind China and the United S
All work
Event
09 April 2025
Conference on globalisation and geo-economic fragmentation
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Amsterdam, jointly organised with De Nederlandsche Bank.
Podcast
31 August 2023
What to expect from the BRICS expansion
The evolution of the grouping alongside the changing dynamics of political economy.
Blog post
13 June 2018
The G7 is dead, long live the G7
The summit in Charlevoix left behind a Group of Seven in complete disarray. The authors think that the G-group, in its current formulation, no longer
Opinion piece
07 April 2015
Pessimistic views of China’s economy are unconvincing
In late 2001, I first used the phrase BRIC to discuss the likely rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China as growing shares of the world economy and ou
Blog post
17 March 2015
Realizing the Indian dream
It is probably too early to say with certainty that India will soon take its place as the world's third largest economy, behind China and the United S
Opinion piece
16 March 2015
Opinion piece
11 February 2015
Two cheers for the new normal
The conventional wisdom about the state of the world economy goes something like this: Since the start of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the develope
Blog post
22 January 2015
Oil and the dollar will complicate the U.S. revival
At the start of 2015, two familiar features dominate the global economic outlook: continuing turbulence in financial markets and the relative strength
Blog post
12 January 2015
The price of oil in 2015
My hunch for 2015 is that oil prices may continue to drop in the short term; unlike in the past four years, however, they are likely to finish the yea
Blog post
09 January 2015
Three good reasons to be bullish on China in 2015
Back at the start of the decade, I made certain assumptions about how the so-called BRIC economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- would perform