Baroness Minouche Shafik
LSE is delighted to announce that Minouche Shafik has agreed to continue as the School’s 16th Director for a second term.
A leading economist whose career has straddled public policy and academia, Minouche has been part of LSE for many years, first as a postgraduate student and returning as Director in September 2017. The youngest ever Vice President of the World Bank, Baroness Shafik DBE later served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development from 2008 to 2011, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2011 to 2014 and as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 2014 to 2017.
With an MSc from LSE and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, Minouche has taught at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University. She has published on a wide array of topics in economics and international development, with her new book What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract out now. Minouche was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2015 and a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords in 2020.
LSE’s Chair of Council Susan Liautaud said:
“As Chair of Council and on behalf of all members, I want to express gratitude for Minouche’s outstanding leadership of our School.
“Having a leader of such global standing, who is so committed to the School and its community, will not only reinforce our longstanding excellence in education and research, but also our institutional resilience, our impact on the world, and our strength as a global community of students, staff, alumni, partners and friends.
“I am sure that all of the LSE community will join me in warmly welcoming the news that Minouche will extend her term as Director, and thank her for her exceptional stewardship of our School, now and in the future.”
Minouche Shafik said:
“I am so proud to be part of LSE and to renew my role as Director. Working with the School Management Committee and all the wonderful students, staff, alumni and friends of our School, who make LSE a very special place, is a privilege.
“Together, we have achieved so much in the past four years, from creating our LSE 2030 strategy and enhancing the student experience to shaping the world for the better through social science research, all whilst ensuring LSE continues to develop for all. I am immensely grateful to everyone for your hard work.
“Whilst LSE’s long tradition of bringing the best of social science research and education to bear on the problems of the day is needed now more than ever, I also hope we can take what we’ve learnt from the last 18 months to come together as a community, acting with care and compassion toward one another in the next academic year and beyond.”
Minouche Shafik’s renewed appointment as Director will now run until 31 August 2024.