Miatta Fahnbulleh (economist)
Miatta Fahnbulleh | |
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Born | Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh September 1979 (age 42) Liberia |
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Institution | New Economics Foundation |
Field | Development economics Public policy |
Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (MA, Ph.D.) |
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh (born September 1979)[1] is a Liberian-born British economist who is the Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation.[2]
Early life and education[]
Born in Liberia to a Liberian father and a Sierra-Leonean mother, Fahnbulleh and her brother Gamal[3] fled with their family to the UK in 1986 at the onset of the First Liberian Civil War where they applied for asylum.[4]
Fahnbulleh attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School, an independent school in Tunbridge Wells.[4] She graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in PPE from Lincoln College, Oxford and obtained a Ph.D. in Economic Development in 2005 from the London School of Economics.[5][4][6]
Fahnbulleh wrote her dissertation on the adoption of and success of industrial policy in Ghana and Kenya.[6]
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.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Miatta Nema FAHNBULLEH - Personal Appointments (Free information from Companies House)".
- ^ "New Economics Foundation Appoints Miatta Fahnbulleh as New CEO". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Sky News Daily - What does it mean to be black and British?".
- ^ a b c d Foster, Dawn (31 October 2017). "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.
- ^ a b "The Elusive Quest for Industrialisation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, c1950-2000". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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- Living people
- British people of Liberian descent
- Black British women academics
- British women economists
- Liberian economists
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- People from Royal Tunbridge Wells
- People educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School
- 1979 births