1. Shaha Riza, is a Libyan former World Bank employee.
12 Facts About Shaha Riza
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Shaha Riza was born a British national in Tripoli to a Libyan father and Saudi mother of Syrian descent.
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Shaha Riza grew up in Libya but attended a Catholic boarding school in England.
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Shaha Riza's father, Khalid Alwalid Algargany, was a consultant of King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, King Saud and King Faisal.
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Shaha Riza was educated at the London School of Economics, from which she received her bachelor's degree, and at St Antony's College, Oxford, from which she earned a master's degree in international relations in 1983.
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In 2004, Shaha Riza organized a major conference of North African and Middle Eastern groups in Beirut.
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Shaha Riza's goal was to inspire democratic reforms in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein as she felt planting democracy in Iraq will inspire other regimes to democratic goals.
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Shaha Riza reportedly earned $180,000 salary after taxes and worked from home in 2008.
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Shaha Riza did not report to the World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz while at the World Bank.
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Shaha Riza was romantically linked to Wolfowitz prior to his World Bank involvement, when he was Deputy Secretary of Defence under Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush administration.
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Shaha Riza even gave up a promotion for which she was highly recommended.
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In 2007, Shaha Riza released an internal statement which she had submitted as part of a defence to her employers to The Wall Street Journal as follows:.