Lawrence H. Summers

Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and president emeritus of Harvard University, where he is also the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Summers previously served as director of the National Economic Council for President Obama, treasury secretary for President Clinton, and vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank. In 1983, he became one of the youngest tenured Harvard University faculty members. Summers was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award and is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to outstanding American economists under 40.