Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House

Political Science professor Michael Horowitz has been appointed director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the appointment on Feb. 25. Horowitz has served as interim director of PWH since July 2019 and will succeed PWH’s founding director, Penn Law professor William Burke-White.

Horowitz said that PWH will continue to explore a wide breadth of topics through its diverse speakers.

"One of the things that excites me is that Perry World House can be a place where we have both Susan Rice talking about American national security and the vice president of Ecuador talking about biodiversity and climate change," Horowitz said. "We can have both those kinds of conversations and that's something that we're going to continue to prioritize."

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