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)
The youngest vice-president in the history of the World Bank where she worked for 15 years, Bank of England/Deputy Governor Gates Foundation trustee...  President of Columbia University In office 1 July 2023 - 14 August 2024  Member of the House of Lords  In office 15 October 2020 - Present  London School of Economics/Director  In office 1 September 2017 - 1 July 2023  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? Succeeded by Minouche Shafik"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  UK Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development In office 2004 - 2011

Dame Nemat Talaat "Minouche" Shafik, DBE (نعمت شفيق) is a British-American economist who resigned as President of Columbia University for her mishandling of student protests over the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War, becoming the third president of an Ivy League university to resign in relation to the Gaza war protests.

During the 2024 Columbia University protests, Minouche Shafik testified before the United States House Committee on Education & the Workforce regarding antisemitism on the Columbia University campus. From ongoing student protests over the Israeli invasion of Gaza, congressional investigations, faculty, and lawmakers, she has been pressured to resign her position.

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.

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."

In 2022 she was appointed a trustee of the Gates Foundation.

Connections

Shafik attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.

 

Events Participated in

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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