Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in several fields of economics and was Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Clinton A... more

Date of birth:

  • Nov 30, 1954 (age 55 years)

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  • Lawrence Henry Summers,
  • Larry Summers,
  • Lawrence H. Summers
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Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 1993
  • American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge
  • 1987
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