Laura Tyson

Laura Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b. June 28, 1947, New Jersey) is an American economist and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. 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 Barack Obama.

From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of the 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 Director of Morgan Stanley since 1997, a Director of AT&T Inc. since 1999 and a Director of Eastman Kodak.

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. 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 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.

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.

* Tyson, Laura D. "Who's Bashing Whom: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries". Paperback ed. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1992.

External links

* [http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/tyson.html Haas School of Business bio.]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1779593,00.html "The First Lady of Business", "The Observer", June 21, 2006 - retrieved 8/24/06]
* [http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/articles/38/38_3/14.Tessensohn.pdf Tyson testimony on H.R. 2652 (1997)]
* [http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/psamlet.html Response to Tyson/Sherry Report]


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