{"id":7545,"date":"2014-03-20T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T21:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news\/?page_id=7545"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:47:50","slug":"summers-to-deliver-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/summers-to-deliver-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to Deliver Annual Economics Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University\u2019s Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, will deliver the annual economics department lecture on Monday, March 31, at 4:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium. The title of his talk is \u201cThe American Economic Growth Challenge.\u201d The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\"LarrySummersfeaturepage\"During the past two decades, Summers has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including as the\u00a071st secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u00a0under President Clinton, director of the\u00a0National Economic Council\u00a0under President Obama, and vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummers has been at the center of macroeconomic policymaking for the past 25 years, and this is an exciting chance for the Smith community to hear from one of the world\u2019s leading economists,\u201d says Charles Staelin, chair of the Smith College Department of Economics.<\/p>\n

Summers received a bachelor of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a doctorate 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.<\/p>\n

In 1987 Summers became the first social scientist 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 an outstanding American economist under the age of 40. He is currently the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School, and the board chair-elect of the Center for Global Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University\u2019s Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, will deliver the annual economics department lecture on Monday, March 31, at 4:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium. The title of his talk is \u201cThe American Economic Growth Challenge.\u201d The event is free and open to the public. During the past two decades, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7545\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/news-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}