Shaha Ali Riza

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Shaha Riza, 2003

Shaha Ali Riza (* 1953 or 1954, in Tripoli ) is a high-ranking employee of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa developing region .

Life

Riza has a Libyan father (Khalid Alwalid Algargny) and a Syrian-Saudi mother who lives in Tripoli. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and studied at the British London School of Economics in 1977 . Her master she made in international relations in 1983 at St Antony's College of Oxford University . Here Riza also met her husband, the Turkish Cypriot Bulent Ali Riza, whose name she bears and with whom she has a son. The marriage is now divorced, the son lives with her.

Often referred to as an “Islamic suffragette”, Riza specialized in the Middle East and conducted a number of field studies in various Arab countries, e. B. for the non-governmental organizations Iraq Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy (NED), two associations that work to strengthen Western-oriented governments.

In 1997 she came to the World Bank, where she initially worked for five years in the office of the Chief Economist for the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa Social and Economic Development Group) . There she was the Gender and Civil Society Coordinator . From July 2002, she worked for the MENA region as Acting Manager for External Relations and Outreach .

Because of her love affair with the President of the World Bank and former Vice President of the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz , Riza has occasionally been referred to as one of the most influential Muslim women in Washington. In 2007 the public began to be interested in possible nepotism within the World Bank between Shaha Ali Riza and Paul Wolfowitz, which led to Wolfowitz announcing his resignation as World Bank President on June 30, 2007. The relationship between Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Ali Riza has now ended.

Publications

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  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Tohuwabohu after a quarrel. April 10, 2007
  2. ↑ http://extsearch.worldbank.org/servlet/SiteSearchServlet?q=riza
  3. ↑ Wolfowitz in-house under pressure. FAZ of April 11, 2007, p. 16; s. Spiegel online too : Corruption - Wolfowitz is losing all support. April 12, 2007
  4. ^ Wolfowitz and gal pal split up. New York Post, May 25, 2007 ; s. Spiegel online too : Wolfie and Shaha are history.
personal data
SURNAME Riza, Shaha Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riza, Shaha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan-British World Bank representative
DATE OF BIRTH 1953 or 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli