Miatta Fahnbulleh (economist)
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh is a Liberian-born British economist who is the Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation.[1]
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh | |
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Nationality | Liberian British |
Institution | New Economics Foundation |
Field | Development economics Public policy |
Alma mater | University of Oxford London School of Economics and Political Science (MA) (Ph.D.) |
Early life and education
Born in Liberia to a Liberian father and a Sierra-Leonean mother, Fahnbulleh and her brother Gamal[2] fled with their family to the UK in 1986 at the onset of the First Liberian Civil War where they applied for asylum.[3]
Fahnbulleh attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School, an independent school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.[3] She graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and obtained a Ph.D. in Economic Development in 2005 from the London School of Economics.[4][3][5]
Fahnbulleh wrote her dissertation on the adoption of and success of industrial policy in Ghana and Kenya.[5]
Career
Fahnbulleh was the Head of Cities in the policy unit at the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013; the director of policy and research at the IPPR from December 2016 to November 2017; and since November 2017, she has been the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.[3]
References
- "New Economics Foundation Appoints Miatta Fahnbulleh as New CEO". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzI4NzI0Ni9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/dm5pZDovL2VwaXNvZGVzLzQxNTUxNTk3P21lZGlhX2lkPTMwNjUxNDQ0
- "Miatta Fahnbulleh: 'People's tolerance for an unfair economic model has hit a buffer'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- "Miatta Fahnbulleh". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- "The Elusive Quest for Industrialisation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, c1950-2000". Retrieved 1 February 2018.