Minouche Shafik

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Person.png Minouche Shafik  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(economist, central banker)
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Bornنعمت شفيق
5 February 1962
Alexandria, Egypt
NationalityUS, UK
Alma materUniversity 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...

Employment.png President of Columbia University

In office
1 July 2023 - 14 August 2024

Employment.png Member of the House of Lords Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
15 October 2020 - Present

Employment.png London School of Economics/Director Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
1 September 2017 - 1 July 2023

Employment.png Bank of England/Deputy Governor

In office
1 August 2014 - 28 February 2017
Led the Fair and Effective Markets Review.

Employment.png IMF/Deputy Director

In office
2011 - 2014?
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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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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." [4]

In 2022 she was appointed a trustee of the Gates Foundation.[5]

Connections

Shafik attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/201930 May 20192 June 2019Switzerland
Montreux
The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World 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/202021 January 202024 January 2020World 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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