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Lawrence Summers

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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Summers has received more than 3,090,349 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Lawrence Summers is the 284th most popular economist (down from 271st in 2019), the 6,265th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,293rd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lawrence Summers ranks 284 out of 315Before him are Robert Barro, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Karl Knies, Michael Kremer, and Seth Godin. After him are Shoshana Zuboff, Anna Schwartz, Alice Salomon, Boediono, Zbigniew Messner, and Jesús Huerta de Soto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Lawrence Summers ranks 268Before him are Mumia Abu-Jamal, Guy Kawasaki, Trevor Rabin, Ruby Bridges, David Keith, and Dragan Vasiljković. After him are Adrian Vandenberg, Ray Parker Jr., Hansi Hinterseer, Anthony Head, Michel Camilo, and Laima Vaikule.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 6,265 out of 18,182Before him are Jeanette MacDonald (1903), Bill Carr (1909), Caleb Deschanel (1944), Jay Miner (1932), Cara Williams (1925), and James Haven (1973). After him are Vernon A. Walters (1917), Billie Dove (1903), James Coco (1930), Mark Isham (1951), Jessica Drake (1974), and Charles Stark Draper (1901).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 93Before him are Gordon Tullock (1922), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Robert Barro (1944), Michael Kremer (1964), and Seth Godin (1960). After him are Anna Schwartz (1915), Robert Rubin (1938), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Walter Block (1941), Henry Charles Carey (1793), and Fischer Black (1938).

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