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
NationalityLiberian
British
InstitutionNew Economics Foundation
FieldDevelopment economics
Public policy
Alma materUniversity 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
  1. "New Economics Foundation Appoints Miatta Fahnbulleh as New CEO". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzI4NzI0Ni9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/dm5pZDovL2VwaXNvZGVzLzQxNTUxNTk3P21lZGlhX2lkPTMwNjUxNDQ0
  3. "Miatta Fahnbulleh: 'People's tolerance for an unfair economic model has hit a buffer'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  4. "Miatta Fahnbulleh". Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  5. "The Elusive Quest for Industrialisation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, c1950-2000". Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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