Miatta Fahnbulleh (economist)

Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh (born September 1979)[1] is a Liberian-born British economist who is the Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation.[2]

Miatta Fahnbulleh
Born
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh

September 1979 (age 42)
Liberia
Nationality
  • Liberian
  • British
InstitutionNew Economics Foundation
FieldDevelopment economics
Public policy
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford (BA)
London School of Economics (MA, Ph.D.)

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] After studying at Lincoln College, Oxford, she graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in PPE 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
  1. "Miatta Nema FAHNBULLEH - Personal Appointments (Free information from Companies House)".
  2. "New Economics Foundation Appoints Miatta Fahnbulleh as New CEO". Retrieved 2 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Sky News Daily - What does it mean to be black and British?".
  4. 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.
  5. "Miatta Fahnbulleh". Retrieved 2 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "The Elusive Quest for Industrialisation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, c1950-2000". Retrieved 1 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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