Lawrence Summers
American economist, Secretary of the Treasury, college administrator, and U.S. government official
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and politician. He was the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He also was the director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010.
Summers was the president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006.[1]
In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI.[2]
References
change- ↑ "Historical Facts", Harvard University, retrieved March 31, 2017
- ↑ Dastin, Jeffrey; Soni, Aditya (November 22, 2023). "Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO after his tumultuous ouster". Reuters.
Other websites
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- Faculty page at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Profile at the U.S. Treasury Department
- Lawrence Summers at Big Think
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Lawrence Summers on Charlie Rose
- Lawrence Summers collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Lawrence Summers from the US Holocaust Museum, February 15, 2007
- Robert Scheer on Resignation of Lawrence Summers – video report by Democracy Now!, September 22, 2010
- Summers' policy proposals to ameliorate the "devastating consequences" of the capacity of capital employing robots, 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, and similar technologies "to replace white-collar as well as blue-collar work," Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #32, Spring 2014
- Membership at the Council on Foreign Relations