In the past, jobs were about muscles
This week, we are featuring a quote from a friend of the Foundation, the newly appointed President of Columbia University, the inspiring Minouche Shafik!
Minouche Shafik (1962-) is an Egyptian-born British-American economist. Shafik has had an extraordinary and outstanding professional and academic career. Having completed her bachelor's degree at the American University in Cairo and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she gained a master's degree from the London School of Economics. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford.
Shortly after completing her PhD, she joined the World Bank. Eventually, she became the youngest-ever Vice President of the World Bank. In 2008, she was appointed Permanent Secretary of the UK Government's Department for International Development. Shafiq then served as the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund between 2011 and 2014.
Returning to the UK in 2014, she was the Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking of the Bank of England until 2017. Staying in the UK, in 2017, Shafiq assumed the role of President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics, which she held until her term expired. As of the beginning of July 2023, she assumed the role of President of Columbia University in New York.
In 2015, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours and was introduced into the UK Parliament's House of Lords in 2020.
We've previously featured Minouche Shafik in our Extraordinary Leaders Podcast series!
In conversation with our very own CEO, Susanna Kempe, Minouche Shafiq discussed how we can return to an equitable, generous and inclusive society in a world where the social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, ageing, and the perils of climate change.
📺 Click here to view the recording!
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Hello all! I did my Laidlaw Programme at Durham University between 2019-2021. My research project focused on evaluating the immigration and asylum system of the EU through a case study of the 2015 immigration crisis. Following the completion of my undergraduate LLB degree I moved to London to pursue my postgraduate LLM study at Queen Mary University of London.
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