{"id":578964,"date":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/19\/columbia-university-names-egypt-born-nemat-shafik-its-first-woman-president\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:15:08","slug":"columbia-university-names-egypt-born-nemat-shafik-its-first-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/01\/19\/columbia-university-names-egypt-born-nemat-shafik-its-first-woman-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University names Egypt-born Nemat Shafik its first woman president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-07\"><\/a><strong> Alexandria-born economist Nemat \u201cMinouche\u201d Shafik (<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/about-lse\/meet-the-director\">official bio<\/a><\/strong><strong>) has been hired <\/strong><strong>as the new president of Columbia University, <\/strong>the university said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.columbia.edu\/news\/columbia-university-names-minouche-shafik-20th-president\">statement<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>Shafik has served as the president of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 2017, following stints as deputy governor of the Bank of England, deputy managing director of the IMF, and other leadership roles at the World Bank and the UK\u2019s Department for International Development. She is set to take over from Lee Bollinger in June, making her the first woman to hold the top job at the Ivy League university. The story got coverage in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/18\/us\/columbia-president-nemat-shafik.html\">NYT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-18\/columbia-hires-first-female-leader-as-shafik-succeeds-bollinger?sref=mmeFTDW1\">Bloomberg<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2023\/01\/18\/nemat-shafik-columbia-university-president\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We couldn\u2019t be more proud of Shafik, <\/strong>with whom we sat down for an <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/03\/25\/our-exclusive-sit-down-with-dame-nemat-minouche-shafik\/\">exclusive interview<\/a> back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also making headlines: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/01\/18\/china-egypt-diplomacy-economy-qin-shoukry\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a> takes a look at what it says are<strong> warming Egypt-China <\/strong><strong>relations <\/strong>in the wake of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/269db5d4-82a5-425e-8d79-2ebf95d28d72\">visit to Cairo<\/a> this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eco-friendly building materials startup Tile Green gets ink from <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/business-and-tech\/20230118-out-of-nile-into-tile-young-egyptians-battle-plastic-plague\">AFP<\/a><\/strong>, in the same week it was chosen as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/business-and-tech\/20230118-out-of-nile-into-tile-young-egyptians-battle-plastic-plague\">one of nine startups<\/a> to receive help from the UK\u2019s Climate Finance Accelerator. <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/18\/business\/egypt-economy-chicken-feet-mime-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/strong><strong> is the latest to use the \u201cchicken feet\u201d drama<\/strong> as a jumping-off point for a story on the state of our economy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A poll by <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2023\/01\/al-monitorpremise-poll-majority-egypt-turkey-and-tunisia-edge-over-food-access\">Al-Monitor<\/a><\/strong><strong> claims to show that 86% of Egyptians worry about <\/strong><strong>their ability to access food<\/strong> in the next six months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mummified crocodiles discovered in Aswan<\/strong> in 2018 are making a splash at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/18\/science\/mummified-crocodiles-egypt-tomb.html\">NYT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria-born economist Nemat \u201cMinouche\u201d Shafik (official bio) has been hired as the new president of Columbia University, the university said in a statement. 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