Emma Rothschild

Emma Rothschild

"Emma Rothschild is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Chair of the Research Council of the Common Security Forum.

"She was born in London in 1948, graduated from Oxford University in 1967, and was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at MIT. From 1978 to 1988, she was an Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society. She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is a member of the United Kingdom government's Council for Science and Technology, and a member of the Board of the British Council. From 1986 to 1994, she was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. In Sweden, she is a member of the Board of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund. She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought, and on environment and population

"She is married to Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics."

Emma Rothschild is a member of the Board of the United Nations Foundation.


 * Director, Better World Fund
 * Former Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
 * Patron, One World Action

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 * 1998-present:Member, Board of the United Nations Foundation
 * 2000-2009:Chairman, Kennedy Memorial Trust
 * 1999-2005:Chairman, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
 * 1998-2001:Member, Council for Science and Technology, United Kingdom
 * 1996-present:   	  	Governor, National Institute for Economic and Social Research, United Kingdom
 * 1995-2005: Member, Visiting Committee, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
 * 1993-1998:Member, Board of the British Council
 * 1992-present: 	Chair, Research Council, Common Security Forum
 * 1989-1993: 	 	Member, Governing Board, International Institute for Environmental Technology, Sweden
 * 1989-1993: 	 	Research Adviser, World Institute for Development Economics Research, Finland
 * 1988-1992: Trustee, Institute for Public Policy Research, United Kingdom
 * 1986-2007: Member, Board of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund, Sweden
 * 1986-1994:Member, The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, United Kingdom
 * 1986-1988: 	 	Member, Rector's Advisory Council, The United Nations University
 * 1984-1985:OECD Science Examiner, Australia
 * 1983-1993:Member, Governing Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
 * 1983‑1989: 	 	Member, Board of Directors, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
 * 1983-1984:Member, Carnegie/MacArthur Committee on International Security
 * 1981-1989:Economic Expert, the Palme Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues
 * 1981-1982: Member, Groupe de Reflexion et de Liaisons Internationales, French Ministry of Planning
 * 1981‑1986: Member, Editorial Board, Technology Review
 * 1979-1987:Member, Advisory Council, Society for the History of Technology
 * 1976-1980:Member, OECD Group of Experts on Science and Technology in the New Socio-Economic Context