Columbia University president in distress Nemat “Minoush” Shafik A Yale professor claims he discredited a former subordinate with a research paper published 30 years ago.
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak posted a bombshell X bulging thread Early Friday morning, a 1992 report that Shafiq co-authored with researcher Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay for the World Bank and the Oxford Economic Papers, from which Bandyopadhyay’s name was removed two years later, were published. Images from magazines published in the magazine were displayed.
Mobarak, a professor of economics and management at Yale University, told the Post that the findings and research cited in both papers are roughly equivalent.
“It’s been rewritten, but it’s basically the same paper,” he claimed.
“I can’t go into the room, [learn] What he wrote and what she wrote, but what we know is that his contribution is enough to warrant co-authorship. [in 1992],” he added. “What’s not good is for someone who was a co-author to suddenly have their name stripped.”
Instead, Bandyopadhyay is only “thanked” in the acknowledgments section at the end of the magazine, which was published in 1994, although Mobarak said Shafiq was Bandyopadhyay’s boss at the time. Taking this into consideration, they are calling out “power asymmetry.”
Asked if he felt disrespected, Bandyopadhyay declined to comment.
But Mr. Mobarak, also a former World Bank consultant and University of Maryland graduate, said he had spoken to Mr. Bandyopadhyay about the issue, and that Mr. Bandyopadhyay believed he should have been acknowledged as a co-author of the second paper. He said that The professor acknowledged that Bandyopadhyay had never said anything “negative” about the Colombian president.
“this [1994] “This paper is drawn almost entirely from a 1992 report co-authored with a consultant who is not credited in the publication,” Mobarak writes in X. “This is intellectual theft on a grand scale, not subtle plagiarism.”
At the time both papers were written, Mr. Shafiq was vice president of the World Bank and Mr. Bandyopadhyay was a consultant who also attended the University of Maryland.
Mobarak’s claims echo plagiarism accusations against former Harvard University president Claudine Gay, who ultimately resigned in disgrace in January.
Columbia University declined to comment.
Mr. Shafiq’s office responded to The Post’s request for comment.
