Experts
Lawrence Summers
Director, National Economic Council
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Larry Summers on government regulation
A former Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers sees the value in smart regulations. Read More
October 24, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Lawrence Summers Reframes the Economic Debate
Obama's top economic adviser on the virtue of free markets. Read More
October 24, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Lawrence Summers on the state of the economic crisis
Lawrence Summers talks about the disadvantages of using the financial markets to explain the overall economy. Read More
October 24, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Lawrence Summers on Centrist Economics
Has President Obama's provocative economic adviser found his way? Read More
October 23, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Lawrence Summers Predicts the Future of the Economy
President Obama's top economic adviser predicts the long-term success of America. Read More
October 23, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Lawrence Summers's history of American productivity
Lawrence Summers provides a capsule of the last hundred years of American economic output. Read More
October 23, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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President Obama's top economic advisor Larry Summers on the global impact of a spendthrift culture. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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What are the challenges confronting the U.S.?
Power depends on legitimacy, and legitimacy depends on a perception of competence, says Larry Summers. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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What should be the big issues of the 2008 election?
Iraq and economic security for middle class families, says Larry Summers. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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The Worldview of Lawrence Summers
President Obama's top economic adviser on how to think. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Belief, Business & Economics, Politics & Policy
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How will this age be remembered?
Larry Summers things we will be measured by how we treated new guests at the table. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Future
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Americans are defined by their openness, non-conformity and their reason, says Larry Summers. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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According to Larry Summers, progress is access to opportunity for ever more people. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Business & Economics
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Technology and the Human Experience
Larry Summers believes that technology enabled by sense has shaped history more than any other single force. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Science & Tech
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Lawrence Summers on the Problems of Academia
Larry Summers on why academics rely more on theory than on data analysis. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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What is the measure of a good life?
Larry Summers believes the measure of a good life is leaving a positive difference. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Inspiration & Wisdom, Love, Sex, & Happiness
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Are faith and reason incompatible?
Larry Summers on truth, debate, academia and George W. Bush. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Belief
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What are the primary challenges facing the developing world?
Some developing countries enjoy more growth than the United States has since the American Revolution. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In World
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Going beyond rationality yields some very interesting results worth watching, says Larry Summers. Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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Why did it matter? Read More
November 19, 2007 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
Lawrence H. Summers is the Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. He was appointed by President Barack H. Obama on November 24, 2008.
Until January, he was the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as the 27th president of Harvard University from July 2001 until June 2006. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury following his earlier service as Deputy and Under Secretary of the Treasury and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. Summers has taught economics at Harvard and MIT. His research contributions were recognized when he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, and when he was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award for outstanding scientific achievement. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and has written extensively on economic analysis and policy publishing over 150 articles in professional economic journals.
Lawrence Summers received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, have six children.
