哈佛大學(xué)校長勞倫斯·薩默斯博士

1、哈佛大學(xué)校長勞倫斯薩默斯博士： 主講人 勞倫斯薩默斯，1954年生于美國紐黑文，其父母均為經(jīng)濟學(xué)家，1975年畢業(yè)于麻省理工學(xué)院，獲學(xué)士學(xué)位，1982年28歲時，在哈佛獲哲學(xué)博士學(xué)位。1987年到1993年，薩默斯先生在哈佛大學(xué)擔(dān)任政治經(jīng)濟學(xué)教授，在專業(yè)經(jīng)濟期刊上發(fā)表過100多篇論文。1984年至1990年期間，一直是經(jīng)濟學(xué)季刊的編輯。1991年到1993年，薩默斯先生受聘于世界銀行，在世界銀行的貸款委員會擔(dān)任首席經(jīng)濟學(xué)家，1999年在克林頓政府任財政部第七十二屆部長，2001年3月11日當選為哈佛大學(xué)第27任校長，8月1日正式上任。 英文簡歷（來自哈佛大學(xué)主頁）： Lawrence H. S

2、ummers： Lawrence H. Summers took office as 27th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2001. His election by the President and Fellows of Harvard College with the counsel and consent of the Board of Overseers was announced on March 11, 2001, marking the culmination of an intensive and broad-rang

3、ing nine-month search for a successor to Neil L. Rudenstine. An eminent scholar and admired public servant, Mr. Summers is the former Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, and in the past decade served in a series of senior public policy positions, most recently as secretary of

4、the treasury of the United States. Having received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, Mr. Summers began his Harvard career as a doctoral student in economics. He served, among other roles, as a resident tutor in Lowell House and a teaching fellow for

5、 Ec 10, the popular undergraduate economics survey course. After completing his dissertation, An Asset-Price Approach to Capital Income Taxation, he was awarded the PhD from Harvard in 1982. By that time, he had taught for three years as an economics faculty member at MIT, where he was named assista

6、nt professor in 1979 and associate professor in 1982. He then went to Washington as a domestic policy economist for the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers. In 1983, he returned to Harvard as a professor of economics, one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured mem

7、ber of the Universitys faculty. In 1987, he was named Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy. While on the faculty, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics and public finance and was an adviser to numerous graduate students who have themselves gone on to become leading

8、 economists. He also served as an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Mr. Summers in 1987 became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), established by Congress to honor an exceptional young U.S. scientist or en

9、gineer whose work demonstrates originality, innovation, and a significant impact within ones field. In 1993, Mr. Summers was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40. Mr. Summers took leave from Harvard in 1991 to return to W

10、ashington, this time as vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank. In that position, he played a key role in designing strategies to assist developing countries, served on the banks loan committee, and guided the banks research, statistics, and external training p

11、rograms. His research featured an influential report demonstrating the very high return on investing in educating girls in developing countries. In 1993, Mr. Summers was named as the nations undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs. He had broad responsibility for assisting then Secr

12、etary Lloyd M. Bentsen in formulating and executing international economic policies. In 1995, then Secretary Robert E. Rubin AB 60 promoted Mr. Summers to the departments number-two post, deputy secretary of the treasury, in which he played a central role in a broad array of economic, financial, and

13、 tax matters, both international and domestic. During this time, he worked closely with Secretary Rubin and Alan Greenspan LLD 99 (hon.), chairman of the Federal Reserve System, in crafting government policy responses to financial crises in major developing countries. On July 2, 1999, Mr. Summers wa

14、s confirmed by the Senate as secretary of the treasury. In that capacity, he served as the principal economic adviser to the President and as the chief financial officer of the U.S. government, presiding over a federal department comprising some two dozen distinct bureaus and offices, with a civilia

15、n workforce of nearly 150,000 employees. As secretary, he helped engineer a historic pay down of U.S. debt, worked successfully to extend the life of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, and led the effort to enact the most sweeping financial deregulation in 60 years. Internationally, he wo

16、rked to reform the international financial architecture and the International Monetary Fund, to secure debt relief for the worlds poorest countries, and to combat international money laundering. At the end of his term as treasury secretary, Mr. Summers was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Medal, the t

17、reasury departments highest honor. After leaving the treasury department in January, Mr. Summers served as the Arthur Okun Distinguished Fellow in Economics, Globalization, and Governance at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Mr. Summerss many publications include Understanding Unemployment (1

18、990) and Reform in Eastern Europe (1991, coauthored with others), as well as more than 100 articles in professional economics journals. He also edited the series Tax Policy and the Economy. In 2000, Mr. Summers was invited to present the American Economic Associations prestigious Ely Lecture, in which he addressed International Financial Crises: Causes, Preventions, and Cures. In 2002, Mr. Summers was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the g