Embattled Columbia College president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik screwed a former underling out of credit score on a analysis paper printed 30 years in the past, a Yale College professor claims.
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak posted the bombshell allegations in a blistering thread on X early Friday, juxtaposing pictures of a 1992 report Shafik co-authored for World Financial institution with researcher Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, together with a journal printed in Oxford Financial Papers two years later through which Bandyopadhyay’s title was eliminated.
Mobarak, an economics and administration professor at Yale, informed The Submit the findings and analysis cited in each papers are just about equal.
“It received rewritten, however essentially it’s the identical paper,” he alleged.
“We are able to’t get within the room and [learn] what sentences did he write and what sentences she wrote, however what we do know is his contribution was ample to warrant co-authorship [in 1992],” he added. “What just isn’t widespread is for somebody to be a co-author after which all of the sudden their title is taken off.”
As a substitute, Bandyopadhyay is simply “thanked” in an acknowledgement part at the back of the 1994 printed journal — which screams of “energy asymmetry” contemplating Shafik was then Bandyopadhyay’s boss, alleged Mobarak.
Bandyopadhyay declined remark when requested whether or not he felt slighted.
Nevertheless, Mobarak, additionally a former World Financial institution marketing consultant and College of Maryland graduate, stated he spoke to Bandyopadhyay concerning the problem and that Bandyopadhyay believes he ought to have been credited as a co-author within the second paper. The professor conceded Bandyopadhyay by no means stated something “detrimental” concerning the Columbia president.
“This [1994] paper is lifted virtually completely from a 1992 report coauthored with marketing consultant not credited within the publication,” wrote Mobarak on X. “That is wholesale mental theft, not delicate plagiarism.”
On the time each papers have been written, Shafik was a vp for World Financial institution and Bandyopadhyay, a marketing consultant who additionally attended the College of Maryland.
Mobarak’s allegations echo plagiarism accusations leveled in opposition to former Harvard College president Claudine Homosexual, who ultimately resigned in shame in January.
Columbia College declined remark.
Shafik’s workplace responded to a request by The Submit in search of remark.
