Minouche Shafik

Nemat (Minouche) Shafik is Director of the LSE. In 2017 she launched a programme of research, 'Beveridge 2.0', to rethink the welfare state for the 21st century. As the youngest ever Vice President of the World Bank, Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Minouche Shafik has worked on major policy upheavals across the globe – from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the Arab Spring, to the financial crash in 2008 and the Eurozone crisis. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2015.