Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
Ismail Lagardien was educated at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD in international political economy. Earlier, he was a journalist, a photojournalist and an academic, and worked in the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and in the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission. He was also the executive dean of business and economics sciences at Nelson Mandela University.
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Ukraine: the West’s new unity and disunity in the East
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: The future is Asian, while SA is stuck in reveries of fallen angels
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: The rouble will not replace the dollar as global reserve currency
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Putin, war and change in the global political economy
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: War drums around Ukraine and the US empire by invitation
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
BIG READ: Ukraine is the sideshow of Russian opposition to Nato expansion
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist
ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: What’s next for the global political economy?
Ismail Lagardien Columnist & essayist