Laura Tyson

Laura D’Andrea Tyson
16th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
In office 1993 – 1995
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Michael Boskin
Succeeded by	Joseph Stiglitz
Born	June 28, 1947 (age 61) New Jersey
Alma mater	Smith College Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Profession	Macroeconomics

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an economic adviser to President Barack Obama.^[1] She was considered a contender for a key economic policy position in the Obama Administration.^[1]

From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Business. She served in the Clinton Administration as Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996. Tyson has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1987, a board director of Morgan Stanley since 1997, a board director of AT&T Inc. since 1999, a board director of Eastman Kodak and is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.

Academics

Tyson graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Smith College in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.^[2] She joined the faculty of the economics department at Princeton University in 1974 and remained in the position until 1977 when she became a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed a professor of business administration in 1990. She is married to writer Erik S. Tarloff and has one son, Elliot S. Tarloff.

Works

Tyson at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 2007

Tyson has published a number of books and articles on industrial competitiveness, trade, and also on the economies of Central Europe and their transitions to market systems.^[3]

An Economic Viewpoint columnist for BusinessWeek magazine, Tyson writes regularly about domestic and international economic policy matters in The Washington Post, The New York Times and other nationally and internationally syndicated newspapers and magazines.

While Dean of London Business School, she personally founded its Centre for Women in Business to great acclaim.^[4] Since 2006, research is led and conducted by Dr Elisabeth Kelan.^[5]

References

External links

• Haas School of Business Bio.
• "The First Lady of Business", The Observer
• Tyson testimony on H.R. 2652 (1997)
• Response to Tyson/Sherry Report
• Debate with Sir James Goldsmith over GATT in 1994