Enrique G. Mendoza: Presidential Term Professor |
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October 16, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 08 |
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Enrique G. Mendoza as Penn’s third Presidential Term Professor, effective January 1, 2013. Dr. Mendoza, a scholar of international macroeconomics, will be Presidential Term Professor of Economics in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
“As an internationally recognized scholar on macroeconomics and finance, Enrique Mendoza has advised leaders and policymakers around the nation and the world on the complex economic issues confronting our world today,” said President Gutmann. “He brings to Penn a vast range of expertise and scholarship on many of the key challenges brought on by an ever more global and interconnected world economy.”
Dr. Mendoza is currently Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, where he has taught since 2002. He previously taught at Duke University and served for several years as an economist for the International Monetary Fund and on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has also been a consultant, visiting professor and resident scholar at a wide range of international universities, banks and economic organizations. His research in international macroeconomics provides critical insights—for scholars, researchers and policymakers—across such areas as business cycles in emerging market economies, sovereign debt and default in developing countries and the implications of America’s trade deficit.
“Enrique Mendoza is one of the most important international scholars at the crossroads of economics, politics and global engagement,” said Provost Price. “His work will advance multiple disciplines of intellectual inquiry on our campus. In particular, it will expand our expertise in both global macroeconomics and public policy, two of the most essential areas of contemporary economics.”
“The appointment of Enrique Mendoza adds important new expertise to our outstanding department of economics,” said Dr. Rebecca Bushnell, dean of SAS. “He is also an award-winning teacher who will be able to share that expertise with students in some of our largest undergraduate and graduate programs.”
Dr. Mendoza earned his PhD (1989) and his MA (1986) in economics from the University of Western Ontario and his BA (1985) with honors in economics from Anahuac University in Mexico City.
Presidential Term Professorships, supported in part by a $2 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts (Almanac December 6, 2011), are awarded to exceptional scholars, of any rank, who contribute to faculty eminence through diversity across the University. Related: Chyke Doubeni: Presidential Term Professor; Benjamin Garcia: Presidential Term Professor |