President of the London School of Economics and Political Science since September 2017, United Kingdom. She is the first woman to hold this position in the history of the college, and she also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum. She served as Deputy Director General of the International Monetary Fund between 2011 and 2014, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England between 2014 and 2017, Permanent Secretary of the British Department for International Development between 2008 and 2011, and Director General of State Programs in the same entity between 2004 and 2008. She also held several positions at the World Bank, reaching the position of Vice President, making her the youngest woman to hold this position. Her positions at the Bank included: Vice President for Structuring between 2003 and 2004, Vice President for Development and Structuring in the Private Sector between 1999 and 2003, Senior Economist between 1994 and 1996, and Expert. She was a Qatari economist between 1992 and 1994, an economic expert during 1990, and advisor to the Vice President for Economic Development, Policy, Research and Foreign Affairs during 1989. She worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford between 1989 and 1991, an economics teacher at the same university between 1987 and 1989, and a consultant at the US Agency For International Development” in Senegal during 1986, she also worked in the same agency in Egypt, where she was an evaluation officer between 1984 and 1985, and an economic policy analyst between 1983 and 1985. She taught at both the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University. “Forbes Middle East Magazine” ranked her on the list of “The Most Powerful Arab Women for 2015,” and “Forbes American Magazine” ranked her on the list of “The Most Influential Women” for the years 2015 and 2016. She received the “Order of the British Empire” in 2015, and the title of “Woman of the Year in Britain.” 2009 during the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards Ceremony. She holds an honorary doctorate in humanities from the American University of Beirut, a doctorate in economics in 1989 from St. Anthony’s College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, a master’s degree in economics in 1986 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree in politics and economics. In 1983 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the United States of America.