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Minouche Shafik was the youngest [[World Bank/Vice President|vice-president]] in the history of the [[World Bank]] where she worked for 15 years, returning to the UK in 2004 as the [[UK Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development]]. In 2011 she became Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and from 2014-2017 was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. | Minouche Shafik was the youngest [[World Bank/Vice President|vice-president]] in the history of the [[World Bank]] where she worked for 15 years, returning to the UK in 2004 as the [[UK Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development]]. In 2011 she became Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and from 2014-2017 was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. | ||
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| + | Shafik has held academic appointments at the [[Wharton Business School|Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania]] and the Economics Department at [[Georgetown University]]. She is an Agenda Contributor at the [[World Economic Forum]].<ref>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/minouche-shafik</ref> | ||
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| + | In a 2019 op-ed, she called for a new [[social contract]] which might have to provide a minimum income for all, but where "aging populations may have to commit to working longer—with retirement ages pegged to life expectancy—and demanding less medicalized health care at the end of life." The economy would have to be redone, with "massive investments in green technologies to transform cities, transportation, and energy systems." <ref>https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/towards-a-new-age-social-contract-11577293930976.html</ref> | ||
==Connections== | ==Connections== | ||
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| Born | نعمت شفيق 5 February 1962 Alexandria, Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts in Amherst, LSE, St Antony's College (Oxford) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dame Nemat Talaat Shafik, DBE (نعمت شفيق) also known as Minouche Shafik) is a British-American economist.
Career
Minouche Shafik was the youngest vice-president in the history of the World Bank where she worked for 15 years, returning to the UK in 2004 as the UK Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development. In 2011 she became Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and from 2014-2017 was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
Shafik has held academic appointments at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Economics Department at Georgetown University. She is an Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum.[1]
In a 2019 op-ed, she called for a new social contract which might have to provide a minimum income for all, but where "aging populations may have to commit to working longer—with retirement ages pegged to life expectancy—and demanding less medicalized health care at the end of life." The economy would have to be redone, with "massive investments in green technologies to transform cities, transportation, and energy systems." [2]
Connections
Shafik attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
