# Professor Paul Romer's appointment to the World Bank as Chief Economist is highlighted

1 Faculty News August 12, 2016 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/92a8f9e6-606e-11e6-ae3f-77baadeb1c93#axzz4H7gYJ2rG) -- "...it is exciting and encouraging that the bank is about to have a chief economist, [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), who is both a top-rate thinker and a boldly unconventional policy entrepreneur."

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