Emma Georgina Rothschild

The Hon. Emma Georgina Rothschild CMG (born May 16, 1948) is a British economic historian and professor at HarvardFact|date=December 2007 and CambridgeFact|date=December 2007 universities who is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England.

Born in London, England, she is the daughter of Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990) and his second wife, Teresa Georgina née Mayor (1915–1996). She is the half-sister of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. At the age of 15 she became the youngest woman ever admitted to Somerville College, Oxford University, from which she graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1967 then received her MA degree in 1970. She was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (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 and also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

In 1991, Emma Rothschild married economist and Nobel laureate, Amartya Kumar Sen.

Ms Rothschild is chair of both the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and of the United Nations Foundation Board Executive Committee. [ [http://www.unfoundation.org/about/board.asp UN Foundation: Board of Directors ] ]

In recognition of her services to Britain's international cultural and academic relations, the New Year Honours 2000 made Emma Rothschild a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

A fellow at King's College, Cambridge, currently Ms. Rothschild is a Professor of History at Harvard University. She is a co-director of the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, and the director of its counterpart, the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University.

Emma Rothschild also serves as Chair of The Rothschild Archive, [ [http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=/ib/articles/project1pd Research Project: project description ] ] the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.

She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Some of her publications include:
* "Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age" (1973)
* " Common Security and Civil Society in Africa" (1999) (Co-Editor)
* "Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment" (2001)
* "Language and Empire, circa 1800" (Historical Research, 2005)

References

* See list of references at Rothschild banking family of England

External links

* [http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/emma.htm Curriculum Vitae, Emma Rothschild, Cambridge University]