Name Nemat Shafik Nemat Shafik
Surname Shafik
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Country of Birth United Kingdom
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2008   Permanent Secretary - DFID DFID Permanent Secretary
2004   DFID - Senior Officers DFID Director General - Country Programmes
2003 2004 World Bank - Infrastructure Network Vice President - Infrastructure
1999 2004 Information for Development Programme - INFODEV Chairperson
1999 2003 World Bank - Finance & Private Sector Development Network Vice-President - Private Sector Development & Infrastructure
1997 1999 World Bank - Middle East & North Africa Regional Office Director - Private Sector & Finance, Middle East & North Africa Region
1996 1997 World Bank - Middle East & North Africa Regional Office Manager - Private Sector Team, Middle East & North Africa Region
1996 1996 University of Pennsylvania Visiting Associate Professor - Wharton Business School
1994 1995 World Bank - Middle East & North Africa Regional Office Senior Economist - Office of the Chief Economist, Regional Vice President for the Middle East & North Africa
1992 1994 World Bank - Europe & Central Asia Regional Office Country Economist - Central European Department
1991 1992 World Bank - Economic Policy Division Economist - World Development Report
1990 1990 World Bank - Economic Policy Division Economist - International Economics Department, Policy, Research & World Affairs
1989 1994 Georgetown University Adjunct Professor - Economics Department
1986 1989 University of Oxford PhD Candidate - Economics (St Antony's College)
1985 1986 London School of Economics Postgraduate Student - MSc Economics
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Notes For a full biography, see Economic Research Forum page at: http://www.erf.org.eg/cms.php?id=erf_affiliates_research_fellows_details&;affiliates_id=135 [ Retrieved on 03 MAR 2008 ]
DFID Biography:
"Minouche Shafik joined DFID in November 2004, as Director General Country Programmes, with responsibility for all of DFID’s country programmes in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. This included an annual programme of £2.7 bn and over 1800 staff in over 50 countries.
Previously, she served as Vice President, Private Sector and Infrastructure at the World Bank and was part of the senior management group of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She also chaired several international consultative groups that support microfinance, energy, water and sanitation for the poor, urban development and slum upgrading, information technologies for development, and private participation in infrastructure.
At the World Bank she worked in a variety of areas – the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the environment, and on international economic issues. She has also taught at the Wharton Business School and at Georgetown University.
Minouche received her B.A. in Economics and Politics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and her M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. She also holds a D.Phil. in Economics from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
She is married and has two children and three stepchildren."
[ Retrieved on 03 MAR 2008 - http://www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/ps-;minouche.asp ]
Record last updated on 03 MAR 2008