NCW congratulates Nemat Shafik for becoming Columbia University president
The National Council for Women (NCW), led by Chairperson Maya Morsy Friday congratulated Nemat Shafik for becoming the president of Columbia University.
Shafik is the first woman to hold this high-level position in the history of the university.
In a statement, Morsy said Egypt is proud of greater achievements made by Shafik.
Nemat “Minouche” Shafik is now president of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Shafik, known by her nickname of Minouche, will become the twentieth president of Columbia University on July 1, the institution said in a statement on Wednesday.
Columbia University’s board of trustees called Shafik “the perfect candidate” in a letter to the Columbia community, describing her as a “brilliant and able global leader, a community builder, and a preeminent economist, who understands” higher education “and the world beyond it.”
Other elite universities including Dartmouth, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania had also appointed women as their presidents in recent months.
Shafik, 60, has been president of the London School of Economics (LSE) since 2017, becoming also the first woman to lead the renowned UK educational institution.
