Miatta Fahnbulleh (economist)

Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh
Nationality Liberian
British
Institution New Economics Foundation
Field Development economics
Public policy
Alma mater University of Oxford
London School of Economics and Political Science (MA) (Ph.D.)

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

Early life

Born in Liberia to a Liberian father and a Sierra-Leonean mother, Fahnbulleh fled with her family to the UK in 1986 at the onset of the Liberian civil war where they applied on an asylum status.[2]

She obtained a BA degree in PPE in 2000;[3] a Master's and Ph.D. in Economic Development, both from the London School of Economics, in 2005.[2][4]

Fahnbulleh did her dissertation on the adoption of and success of industrial policy in Ghana and Kenya.[4]

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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "New Economics Foundation Appoints Miatta Fahnbulleh as New CEO". Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Miatta Fahnbulleh: 'People's tolerance for an unfair economic model has hit a buffer'". The Guardian. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Miatta Fahnbulleh". Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "The Elusive Quest for Industrialisation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Kenya, c1950-2000". Retrieved February 1, 2018.


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