Patrick Kabanda is author of The Creative Wealth of Nations, a book published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by the philosopher and Nobel economist Amartya Sen. Besides concertizing and lecturing worldwide, he has taught at Phillips Academy, consulted for the World Bank's Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, and contributed to the World Development Report 2016 and to UNDP's 2015 and 2019 Human Development Reports. A Juilliard-trained organist and a Fletcher-trained international affairs professional, he received Juilliard's William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music in 2003, and from 2012 to 2013 he was a Charles Francis Adams Scholar at The Fletcher School. He was awarded the 2013 Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service from Tufts University, Massachusetts.