Speaker 讲座嘉宾

He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987, Mr. Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.

He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.

劳伦斯·萨默斯，美国著名经济学家，查尔斯·W·艾略特大学教授，曾任哈佛大学校长。过去二十年里，他一直在美国政府担任多项要职，其中包括在克林顿时期担任第71任美国财政部部长，在奥巴马时期担任美国国家经济顾问委员会主席，以及世界银行首席经济学家。

他于1975年从麻省理工学院毕业获得学士学位，1982年从哈佛大学毕业获得博士学位。1983年，即28岁那年，萨默斯成为哈佛历史上最年轻的教授。1987年，他是首位社会科学家从美国国家科学基金会夺得沃特曼奖。他在1993年从美国经济学会获得约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖。