Miatta Fahnbulleh | |
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Born | Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh September 1979 (age 44) Liberia |
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Political party | Labour Party |
Academic career | |
Field | Development economics Public policy |
Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (MA, Ph.D.) |
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh (born September 1979) [1] is a Liberian-born British economist. She is the Labour Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham in the next United Kingdom general election.
Until December 2023, she was the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation. [2] [3]
Fahnbullah was born in Liberia to a Liberian father and a Sierra-Leonean mother and has a brother, Gamal. [4] The family fled at the onset of the First Liberian Civil War in 1986 to the UK where they applied for asylum. [5]
Fahnbulleh attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School, an independent school in Tunbridge Wells. [5] After studying at Lincoln College, Oxford, she graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics and obtained a Ph.D. in Economic Development in 2005 from the London School of Economics. [6] [5] [7] Fahnbulleh wrote her dissertation on the adoption of and success of industrial policy in Ghana and Kenya. [7]
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 the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation between November 2017 and December 2023. [5] [8]
On 22 May 2022, Fahnbulleh was a recipient of the MotheRED grant, which provides funding for mothers to stand as parliamentary candidates for the Labour Party. [9] In September 2022, Fahnbulleh announced that she was standing to be the prospective parliamentary candidate in Camberwell and Peckham at the next United Kingdom general election. [10] On 19 November 2022, she was selected by local Labour Party members as the candidate. [11] [12] The constituency will be an open seat, as Harriet Harman is standing down after 40 years as MP. [13]
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