Emma Georgina Rothschild
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Emma Rothschild at Sala São Paulo, Brazil.
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16 May 1948 London, England, UK |
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Citizenship | British |
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University of Oxford (BA, Philosophy, Politics & Economics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, Economics) |
| Occupation | Economist and economic historian |
| Spouse(s) | Amartya Sen (m. 1991) |
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Emma Georgina Rothschild, CMG (born 16 May 1948) is a British economic historian who is a Professor of History at Harvard University. She is also the director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge.
She is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and is a trustee of the Rothschild Archive, the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family. After her marriage to Amartya Sen, she is also a member of the .
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).
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