David Love
David Love

Professor of Economics David Love has been named college provost, effective Sept. 1. Love, who is known to the Williams community as “Dukes,” joined the faculty in 2003. Since then he has served as chair of the Faculty Compensation Committee and as a member of the Faculty Steering Committee and Committee on Priorities and Resources, among others. He is an editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and his research focuses on household savings, portfolio allocation, macroeconomics, public finance and private pensions. He succeeds Will Dudley ’89, who will assume the presidency of Washington and Lee University in January. The college also said goodbye to Vice President of College Relations John M. Malcolm ’86, who on July 1 began his new role as chief development officer of the Boston-based Partners in Health. Malcolm spent six years at Williams, during which time the college launched Teach It Forward, its $650 million campaign.