11 Facts About Emma Rothschild

Emma Georgina Rothschild was born on 16 May 1948 and is an English economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University.

Emma Rothschild is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.

Emma Rothschild formerly served as board member of United Nations Foundation and as a professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris.

Emma Rothschild is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a trustee of the Rothschild Archive, the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.

Emma Rothschild was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Emma Rothschild was an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Emma Rothschild then was a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and continues to be an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the Cambridge History faculty.

Emma Rothschild was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.

Emma Rothschild is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

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

Emma Rothschild has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought.