The World Bank has appointed Yale University’s Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, a leading academic who has probed how international trade can fuel inequality, as the bank’s new chief economist.
The bank said Ms. Goldberg, who goes by Penny, would help strengthen its academic bona fides. She just completed a tenure as the first female editor in chief of the American Economic Review, one of the most prestigious and influential journals in economics.
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