U.A.E.’s Venture With MIT Announces Second Senior Resignation

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology’s Provost John Perkins resigned after a year in the post, the second senior departure from Abu Dhabi’s joint project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Perkins has decided “to return to the U.K. in the fall for personal reasons,” Masdar Institute Media Relations Officer Lesley Snyman said by e-mail today. “The institute will be announcing a replacement in due course.”