Lawrence Summers

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lawrence Summers
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 30, 1954(1954-11-30)
Age	70
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Scorpio

Lawrence Summers Biography

Lawrence Summers is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 30, 1954 in Connecticut, United States. American economist who was the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury between 1999 and 2001. He also served as the president of the famous Harvard University from 2001 to the year 2006.

He was named as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury of the United States by President He was appointed the 71st Secretary of the Treasury of the United States by President Bill Clinton in 1999. in 1999.

Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank (1991–93), senior U.S. Treasury Department official throughout President Clinton’s administration (ultimately Treasury Secretary, 1999–2001), and former director of the National Economic Council for President Obama (2009–2010). He is a former president of Harvard University (2001–2006), where he is currently (as of March, 2017) a professor and director of the Mossavar- Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

At age 16, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he originally intended to study physics but soon switched to economics (S.B., 1975). He was also an active member of the MIT debating team and qualified for participation in the annual National Debate Tournament three times. He attended Harvard University as a graduate student (Ph.D., 1982). In 1983, at age 28, Summers became one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard’s history. It was also during this time that Summers was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He underwent treatment and has since remained cancer free. He was a visiting academic at the London School of Economics in 1987. Summers has three children (older twin daughters Ruth and Pamela and son Harry) with his first wife, Victoria Joanne (Perry). In December 2005, Summers married English professor Elisa New, who has three daughters (Yael, Orli and Maya) from a previous marriage. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

He was married to Elisa New in the year 2005.

Lawrence Summers Net Worth

Lawrence Summers is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lawrence Summers 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received the Pd.D at Harvard University after obtaining his undergraduate degree in economics at MIT.

He was the President of Harvard University when the Winklevoss twins accused Harvard classmates He was President of Harvard University when the Winklevoss twins accused their Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook. of taking their idea to create Facebook.

Summers was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 30, 1954, into a Jewish family, the son of two economists, Robert Summers (who changed the family surname from Samuelson) and Anita Summers (of Romanian-Jewish ancestry), who are both professors at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (brother of Robert Summers) and Kenneth Arrow (brother of Anita Summers). He spent most of his childhood in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended Harriton High School.

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Who is Lawrence Summers Dating?

According to our records, Lawrence Summers married to Elisa New , Victoria Perry. As of December 1, 2023, Lawrence Summers’s is not dating anyone.

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Much of Summers’s tenure at the Treasury Department was focused on international economic issues. He was deeply involved in the Clinton administration’s effort to bail out Mexico and Russia when those nations had currency crises. Summers set up a project through which the Harvard Institute for International Development provided advice to the Russian government between 1992 and 1997. Later there was a scandal when it emerged that some of the Harvard project members had invested in Russia, and were therefore not impartial advisors. Summers encouraged then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to use the same “three-‘ations'” of policy he advocated in the Clinton Administration – “privatization, stabilization, and liberalization.”

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Lawrence Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lawrence Summers celebrates birthday on November 30 of every year.

As a researcher, Summers has made important contributions in many areas of economics, primarily public finance, labor economics, financial economics, and macroeconomics. Summers has also worked in international economics, economic demography, economic history and development economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1993 from the American Economic Association. In 1987, he was the first social scientist to win the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. Summers is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

What is Lawrence Summers net worth?

Upon being nominated Treasury Secretary by President Clinton in 1999, Summers listed assets of about $900,000 and debts, including a mortgage, of $500,000. By the time he returned in 2009 to serve in the Obama administration, he reported a net worth between $17 million and $39 million.

What is the Larry Summers hypothesis?

In 2005, Harvard University President Larry Summers suggested that differences in innate aptitude rather than discrimination were more likely to be to blame for the failure of women to advance in scientific careers (Summers 2005).

Where does Lawrence h Summers live?

He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.

What is obamas networth?

NameNet worth (millions of 2022 US$)Political party
Bill Clinton| 90| Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt| 79| Democratic
John Tyler| 68| Whig / None
Barack Obama| 48| Democratic

How much is Hank Paulson worth?

His net worth has been estimated at over $700 million. Paulson has personally built close relations with China during his career.