Emma Georgina Rothschild - Biography

Emma Georgina Rothschild, CMG (born May 16, 1948) is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. She is presently British economic historian and professor at Harvard University.

Early life to the present

Rothschild was born in London, England, the daughter of Victor Rothschild (1910–1990) and his second wife, Teresa Georgina Rothschild (née Mayor; 1915–1996). On her father's side, she descends from the Rothschild family. Her maternal grandfather, Robert John Grote Mayor, was the brother of English novelist F. M. Mayor and a greatnephew of philosopher and clergyman John Grote. Her maternal grandmother, Katherine Beatrice Meinertzhagen, was the sister of soldier Richard Meinertzhagen and the niece of author Beatrice Webb. She is the sister of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild and 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. 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, Rothschild married economist and Nobel laureate, Amartya Kumar Sen.

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

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

Rothschild sits on the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation.

Rothschild also serves as a trustee of The Rothschild Archive, the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.

Publications

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)
• A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic (Past and Present, 2006)
• The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (2011)

• See list of references at Rothschild banking family of England

External links

• Curriculum Vitae, Emma Rothschild, Cambridge University