FACULTY HONOR: James named International Monetary Fund historian

By the Office of Communications on April 13, 2016, 10:30 a.m.

Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, professor of history and international affairs, and director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, has been selected as one of the two new historians at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He and Atish (Rex) Ghosh from the IMF will begin their new roles May 2. James will retain his normal roles at Princeton. Ghosh was an assistant professor of economics and international affairs from 1989 to 1996.

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