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Laura Tyson

S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, economics, Smith College
Ph.D., 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, UC Berkeley
1977 - 2001 Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1995 - 96 Chairman, National Economic Council
1993 - 95 Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors
1990 - 92 Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
1988 - 92 Director of Research, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, UC Berkeley
1974 - 77 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Member, corporate boards of AT&T Inc.; Eastman Kodak Company; Morgan Stanley
Member, advisory boards of Generation Investment Management; H&Q Asia Pacific
Member, academic/non-profit boards of 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; Senior Advisor, Chartwell Education; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Member, MIT Corporation; Visiting Committee Corporation Member, Department of Economics< MIT; Visiting Committee Corporation Member, Department of Music and Theatre Arts
California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors
Former member, editorial boards of the California Management Review, The Journal of Economic Perspective, American Prospect
Economic Viewpoint Columnist, Business Week, 1998-2005
Member of Board of Economists of the Los Angeles Times, 1989-92
Former co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

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

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.
Chalmers Johnson, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, and John Zysman, eds., The Politics of Productivity: The Real Story of Why Japan Works. Ballinger Publishing Co., 1989.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, William T. Dickens, and John Zysman, eds., The Dynamics of Trade and Employment. Ballinger Publishing Co., 1988.
Ellen Comisso and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, eds., Power, Purpose and Collective Choice: Economic Strategy in Socialist States, Special Issue of International Organization, 40, no. 2 (Spring 1986), Cornell University Press.
Economic Adjustment in Eastern Europe. The RAND Corporation, 1984.
John Zysman and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, eds., American Industry in International Competition: Political and Economic Perspectives. Cornell University Press, 1983.
The Yugoslav Economic System and Its Performance in the 1970s. University of California at Berkeley, 1980.
Egon Neuberger and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, eds., The Impact of External Economic Disturbances on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Pergamon Press, 1980.

Honors and Awards

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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