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	Laura D. Tyson S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management Haas Business and Public Policy Group 510-642-1230 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, Economics, Smith College
PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions Held

At Haas since 1990
2008 - present, S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management

2007 - 2008, Professor, Haas School of Business
2002 - 2006, Dean, London Business School
1998 - 2001, Dean, Haas School of Business
1997 - 2001, Principal, Law and Economics Consulting Group
1990 - 2001, Professor, Haas School of Business
1977 - 2001, Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1995 - 1996, Chairman, National Economic Council
1993 - 1995, Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors
1990 - 1992, Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
1988 - 1992, Director of Research, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, UC Berkeley
1974 - 1977, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Member, President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Board Member, Science, Technology and Economic Policy, The National Academies
Board of Trustees, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
Member, Corporate Board: AT&T Inc.; Eastman Kodak Company; Morgan Stanley
Member, Advisory Board: Generation Investment Management; H&Q Asia Pacific
Member, Academic/Nonprofit Board: The Brookings Institution; New America Foundation; Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics; Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Chair of Board of Trustees & Steering Committee Member, Blum Center for Developing Economies
Director, LECG
Senior Advisor: McKinsey Global Institute; Chartwell Education
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Member, MIT Corporation
Visiting Committee Corporation Member: Department of Economics, MIT; Department of Music and Theatre Arts
California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors

Current Research and Interests

Changes in the global economy, with special focus on high-technology competition
Doing business in emerging market economies
US trade policy

Selected Papers and Publications

"A Progressive Agenda for Competitiveness and Trade" in Change for America, A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, ed. Mark Green and Michele Jolin, 2009.
Economic Report of the President 1994, with Martin Baily and Joseph Stiglitz. Government Printing Office, 1995.
Economic Report of the President 1993, with Alan Blinder and Joseph Stiglitz. Government Printing Office, 1994.
Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries. Institute of International Economics, 1992.
The Politics of Productivity: The Real Story of Why Japan Works, edited with Chalmers Johnson and John Zysman. Ballinger Publishing Co., 1989. (Editor.)
The Dynamics of Trade and Employment, edited with William T. Dickens and John Zysman. Ballinger Publishing Co., 1988. (Editor.)
Power, Purpose and Collective Choice: Economic Strategy in Socialist States, Special Issue of International Organization 40, no. 2 (Spring 1986). (Editor, with Ellen Comisso.)
Economic Adjustment in Eastern Europe. The RAND Corporation, 1984.
American Industry in International Competition: Political and Economic Perspectives, edited with John Zysman. Cornell University Press, 1983. (Editor.)
The Yugoslav Economic System and Its Performance in the 1970s. University of California at Berkeley, 1980.
The Impact of External Economic Disturbances on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, edited with Egon Neuberger. Pergamon Press, 1980. (Editor.)

Honors and Awards

Club 6 Member, Haas School of Business, (for teaching excellence, based on student evaluations), 2008
Elected member of Council on Foreign Relations, 1987
University of California, Berkeley, Distinguished Teaching Award, Spring 1982
National Fellows Program Fellowship, Hoover Institution, 1978-1979
American Council of Learned Societies Grant, Spring Term 1977, 1978, 1979
Sloan Foundation Grant, Summer 1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NDEA TITLE IV Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship; International Research and Exchanges Board Study Grant
Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa
Smith College Prize for distinguished work in Economics

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