Seema Jayachandran takes up a professorship at Princeton after four years at Northwestern.
The economist takes up one of five new academic posts established to address global challenges framed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Theodore Papageorgiou’s research focuses on labor economics, international trade and macroeconomics.
The economist joins the institution from the University of Gothenburg, where she was an assistant professor.
Ponomarev will join the University of Chicago on July 1 as an assistant professor.