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MIT economist will head Sloan Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's board of trustees has announced the election of Paul L. Joskow as president of the foundation. Joskow is a professor of economics and management at MIT and director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

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