Penn Arts and Sciences Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship

School of Arts and Sciences senior Kristen Hall has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship. She is among 31 winners of the scholarship.

Hall, a student in the Huntsman Program who will receive a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in international studies in the Spring, plans on studying financial and development economics at Oxford University. Her previous volunteer work in Botswana and Tanzania has inspired her goal to work at the International Monetary Fund or a development bank to inform economic policy for African countries. She previously received the Goldman Sachs Global Leader Scholarship and the Kathryn W. Davis 100 Projects for Peace Award. Hall is also a member of the Wharton Dean's Advisory Board and does consultation work with non-profit organizations through Penn International Business Volunteers.

The Marshall Scholarships finance up to 40 young American scholars each year to pursue graduate studies in any field at a United Kingdom institution. It was founded in 1953 by the British Parliament in honor of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall.

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