She will leave the institution this summer to become president of Columbia University.
His work focused on macroeconomic problems in developing economies, and he led MIT’s economics department between 1986 and 1990.
He was previously chair of the economics division at Columbia Graduate School of BusinessÂ.
Wu is a key architect of the Biden administration’s sweeping executive order on antitrust regulation.
Jordan Matsudaira is currently also serving as deputy under secretary at the department.
Tatiana Mocanu, Sebastán Otero and Noémie Pinardon-Touati will join the university’s department of economics in 2023.