Miatta Fahnbulleh (economist)
Miatta Nema Fahnbulleh (born September 1979) is a Liberian-born British economist who is the Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation. Early life and education. Born in Liberia to a Liberian father and a Sierra-Leonean mother, Fahnbulleh and her brother Gamal fled with their family to the UK in 1986 at the onset of the First Liberian Civil War where they applied for asylum. Fahnbulleh attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School, an independent school in Tunbridge Wells. After studying at Lincoln College, Oxford, she graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in PPE and  obtained a Ph.D. in Economic Development in 2005 from the London School of Economics. Fahnbulleh wrote her dissertation on the adoption of and success of industrial policy in Ghana and Kenya. Career. 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 since November 2017, she has been the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.