Senior Advisor

Mr. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton from 1999 to 2001. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to an outstanding American economist under the age of 40. He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University.