Nobel Laureate, Financier Elected to Board of Trustees Nobel Prize winner and Harvard professor Amartya Sen and Financier and former U.S. Treasury official Darcy Bradbury were elected to the Population Council’s Board of Trustees at its June meeting, joining 15 other academic, business, and intellectual leaders from eight countries. “Darcy Bradbury’s financial management expertise and her commitment to reproductive health and Amartya Sen’s knowledge of international development and human rights are potent additions to the board’s collective knowledge,” said Council president Peter J. Donaldson. “We are delighted that the Council’s mission continues to attract such distinguished individuals.” Bradbury is a managing director of The Blackstone Group, a private investment and advisory firm. She is also an experienced trustee, serving on several boards including the Women’s Campaign Fund, a nonpartisan group dedicated to “preserving access to reproductive choice by helping elect progressive women to political office,” and the Nurse-Family Partnership, which works with first-time, impoverished mothers to improve the health and development of women and their children. Bradbury began her career as an investment banker, eventually moving into government service as New York City’s Deputy Comptroller for Finance. She was appointed to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Clinton administration, first as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Finance and later as Assistant Secretary for Federal Markets. Sen is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. His previous academic appointments include the Delhi School of Economics, Jadavpur University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and Trinity College. He has served as president of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, and the International Economic Association. Sen has written or edited 25 books. His latest books are The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. His Poverty and Famines was called “a key contribution to development economics” by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when it awarded him the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. (Return to issue contents)
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