Lawrence H. Summers

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University, where he also directs the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as the 71st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council under President Obama, and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is best known for his decades of influence on U.S. and global economic policy, including his role during the longest sustained period of economic growth in U.S. history and his leadership in addressing major financial crises over the past thirty years.