The School of Arts and Sciences presents
The 2009 Granoff Forum on International Development and the Global Economy
featuring
A
Discussion with Lawrence H. Summers
Director of the National Economic Council
and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
Thursday, October 22, 2009
About the Granoff Forum
The Granoff
Forum was established in 2000 through a generous gift from Michael
Granoff. Drawing on Penn’s acknowledged strengths in international
relations, economics and business, the forum is designed to explore the
globalization process and the many ways in which it is transforming the
world’s economy. Previous Granoff Forum speakers have included
Bill Clinton, George Soros and James Wolfensohn.
Lawrence H. Summers Biography
Lawrence H. Summers is the Director of the National Economic Council and
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.