11 November 2004
The Prime Minister has appointed Emma Rothschild CMG as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Memorial Trust for a period of five years from 4 October 2005.
Biographical Notes
Emma Rothschild has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Memorial Trust since 2000 and co-director of the Centre for Economics and History at Kings College, Cambridge since 1991. From 1986 to 1994 she was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. She was a member of the board of the British Council from 1993 to 1998, a member of the Council for Science and Technology from 1998 to 2001. She has been a member of the board of the UN Foundation since 1998, and Chairman of the UN Research Institute for Social Development since 1999. She has published Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age (1973), and Economic Sentiments (2001) as well as articles in various journals. She was a Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1968.
Notes for Editors
The Kennedy Memorial Trust was established in 1966 to administer monies raised in the United Kingdom a tribute to the late President John Kennedy. Part of the fund was used to create and maintain the Kennedy Memorial site at Runnymede. The remaining capital is used to provide Kennedy Scholarships which enables British post-graduate students to study at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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