Dr. Lawrence Summers

Biography

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He directs the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Over the past four decades, Dr. Summers has held a series of senior policy positions, including serving as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton and as Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. He has also been Chief Economist at the World Bank. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became the youngest individual in recent history to be named a tenured member of the Harvard faculty. He was the first social scientist to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation in 1987 and was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1993, recognizing outstanding American economists under the age of 40. Summers resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife Elisa New and their six children.

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