Laura D’Andrea Tyson

Laura D’Andrea Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as dean of London Business School from 2002 to 2006, and as dean of the Haas School from 1998 to 2001.

Professor Tyson is a member of the State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board. From 2011 to 2013, she was a member of President Obama’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness, and from 2009 to 2011, she was on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton administration as head of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993-95) and as the president’s national economic adviser (1995-96).

Professor Tyson is a senior adviser at the McKinsey Global Institute, Credit Suisse Research Institute, and The Rock Creek Group. She is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is on the advisory council of the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project. She is an advisory board member of Pave Inc., Newman’s Own, Generation Investment Management, H&Q Asia Pacific, and Tykoon. She heads the boards of the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the Jacobs Foundation and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. She is an adviser to the Alliance for Competitive Taxation and Samsung SDS. She is a special adviser at the Berkeley Research Group and is a commissioner at the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget. She is also a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and the Henry Jackson Initiative Task Force for Inclusive Capitalism. She serves on the National Academies’ Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy and is a member of its Innovation Policy Forum. Professor Tyson is also a member of Nicolas Berggruen’s Think Long Committee for California and 21st Century Council. She is co-chairwoman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Women’s Empowerment. She serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley, AT&T., CBRE Group, and Silver Spring Networks.

Professor Tyson has written books and articles on industrial competitiveness and trade. She has also written opinion columns for many publications, including BusinessWeek, The New York Times and The Financial Times and has made numerous television appearances on economic issues. She is on the editorial board of the International Economy. In addition to the Economix blog, she contributes to Project Syndicate and the Financial Times A-list.

Twitter: @LauraDTyson