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Lawrence Summers

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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as the director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, where he is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI. Summers became a professor of economics at Harvard University in 1983. He left Harvard in 1991, working as the Chief Economist of the World Bank from 1991 to 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Summers is the 318th most popular economist (up from 322nd in 2019), the 7,914th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,448th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lawrence Summers ranks 318 out of 414. Before him are Nouriel Roubini, Pedro Solbes, Branko Milanović, Seth Godin, José Luis Sampedro, and Karl Knies. After him are Alice Salomon, Michael Kremer, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Walter Block, José Ángel Gurría, and Ludwig Lachmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Lawrence Summers ranks 364. Before him are Elliot Goldenthal, Tina Knowles, George Galloway, Alberto Malesani, Antonio Olmo, and Bob Weinstein. After him are José María Figueres, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Keith Campbell, Oscar Larrauri, Rick Warren, and K. Chandrashekar Rao.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 7,916 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Anderson (1932), Randy Jones (1952), Ted Raimi (1965), Eriq La Salle (1962), Carmen Basilio (1927), and Charles Dana Gibson (1867). After him are Sydney Lassick (1922), Brendan O'Brien (1960), John King Fairbank (1907), Henry Darrow (1933), George Winston (1949), and Gilda Radner (1946).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 102. Before him are Armen Alchian (1914), Anthony Downs (1930), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Richard D. Wolff (1942), Alan Krueger (1960), and Seth Godin (1960). After him are Michael Kremer (1964), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Walter Block (1941), Anne Osborn Krueger (1934), David Landes (1924), and Robert Rubin (1938).

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