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The idea that you are successful because you are smart and hardworking is pernicious and wrong, because it means everyone who is unsuccessful is stupid and lazy.

— Minouche Shafik

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I strongly believe that talent is spread evenly around the world, but opportunity is not.

In the past, the middle class could count on a conveyor belt of higher education leading to university, leading to public sector employment. But now, that conveyor belt has stopped.

I am not just a person who wants to raise taxes and share out more. I want everyone to pay their fair share of taxes and invest more in each other

But we must take into account the rights of all members of our community. The encampment has created an unwelcoming environment for many of our Jewish students and faculty.

Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik (2024)

The most obvious way to take international considerations into account is by treating risks emanating from abroad as an important input when setting domestic macroprudential policy.

Think Global, Act local (2016)

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