Rohinton P. Medhora

Rohinton P. Medhora is a Canadian economist. He is professor of practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University, and a former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation where he remains a distinguished fellow. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada's International Development Research Centre. His fields of study are international economic relations, innovation policy, and development economics.

Rohinton sits on several non-profit boards, and was a member of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz.  He previously 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]. In 2021-22 he 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 including co-editing Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, which is volume 27 in the Canada Among Nations series and International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press).

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.