Economist Nemat Shafik will be the next president of Columbia University. She has served as president of the London School of Economics since 2017.
Shafik has extensive experience in financial institutions across the globe, serving as the World Bank's vice president, the International Monetary Fund's deputy managing director and the Bank of England's deputy governor. She was also the first woman to be president of the London School of Economics and the first woman to be permanent secretary of the U.K. Department for International Development.
Shafik's family came to the U.S. from Egypt in the 1960s when she was 4 years old, and she attended schools in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina before earning her undergraduate degree in economics and politics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She then earned a master's degree in economics from LSE and a Ph.D. in economics at Oxford University.
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