FACULTY HONOR: Shin named to role at Bank for International Settlements

Hyun Song Shin, Princeton's Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, has been named economic adviser and head of research at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In his role, Shin will be a member of the executive committee of the BIS, which serves as a bank for central banks and works to foster international cooperation in the pursuit of monetary and fiscal stability. Shin, who will take a leave from Princeton, begins work at the BIS on May 1, 2014.