Minouche Shafik

Minouche Shafik
Minouche Shafik; (economist, central banker);
Born	نعمت شفيق; 5 February 1962; Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality	US, UK
Alma mater	University of Massachusetts in Amherst, LSE, St Antony's College (Oxford)
	LSE/Director
In office
	1 September 2017 - Present
	Bank of England/Deputy Governor
In office
	1 August 2014 - 28 February 2017
	Led the Fair and Effective Markets Review.
	IMF/Deputy Director
In office
	2011 - 2014?
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	UK Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development
In office
	2004 - ?

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 attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
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.

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