Baroness Minouche Shafik Director, London School of Economics

Nemat (Minouche) Shafik is a leading economist, whose career has straddled public policy and academia. She was appointed Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in September 2017.

She did her BA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, her MSc at the LSE and her DPhil at the University of Oxford and, by the age of 36, had become the youngest ever Vice President of the World Bank. She taught at Georgetown University and the Wharton Business School. She later served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and as Deput Governor of the Bank of England from 2014-2017, where she sat on the monetary, financial and prudential policy committees and was responsible for the Bank’s balance sheet of over £500 billion.

Minouche has served on and chaired numerous boards and currently serves as a Trustee of the British Museum, the Supervisory Board of Siemens, the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2015 and became a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords in 2020.