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Laura D'Andrea Tyson

LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON is Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the only woman currently leading a major business school in the United States.

Dr. Tyson served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 through December 1996. Between February 1995 and December 1996 she served as the President's National Economic Adviser and was the highest ranking woman in the Clinton White House.

In appointing Dr. Tyson as his National Economic Adviser, President Clinton praised her for offering "unfailingly frank, direct and principled advice." At the time, Business Week magazine noted that with Tyson's appointment the Administration gained an "articulate economist" who would be a "frontline economic spokesperson" for the Clinton economic agenda. Dr. Tyson was a key architect of President Clinton's domestic and international policy agenda during his first term in office. As the Administration's top economic adviser, she managed all economic policy-making throughout the executive branch. Dr. Tyson also served as a member of the President's National Security Council and Domestic Policy Council.

Prior to her appointment as National Economic Adviser, Dr. Tyson served as the sixteenth Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the first woman to hold that post. In that capacity, she led a staff of professional economists responsible for providing the President and his National Economic Council with advice and analysis on all economic policy matters. She was also responsible for preparing the Administration's economic forecasts and for the annual Economic Report of the President.

Before joining the Clinton Administration, Dr. Tyson published a number of books and articles on industrial competitiveness and trade, including the highly acclaimed book Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries. She also published several books and articles on the economies of Central Europe and their transition to market systems.

Dr. Tyson has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Smith College (1969) and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974). She is a member of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and a principal of the Law & Economics Consulting Group. Dr. Tyson also is a member of the Boards of Directors of Ameritech Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, Eastman Kodak Company, the Institute for International Economics, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co. She is a member of The Trilateral Commission; she serves on the Boards of Trustees of The Asia Foundation and of Smith College; the Advisory Boards of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., LLP, Shorenstein Company, LP, the G7 Group, Inc. and The Journal of Economic Perspectives; and the Boards of Editors of The American Prospect and California Management Review.

She is an Economic Viewpoint columnist for Business Week magazine and a commentator for Nightly Business Report.

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