Laura Tyson

Senior Fellow

Laura D’Andrea Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as dean of The London Business School from 2002 to 2006, and as dean of the Berkeley Haas School of Business from 1998 to 2001.

Tyson is a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Jobs and Competitiveness and a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. From 2009 to 2011, she was a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She also served in the Clinton administration and was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993 to 1995) and the President’s National Economic Adviser (1995 to 1996).

Tyson is currently a senior advisor at the McKinsey Global Institute, Credit Suisse Research Institute, and The Rock Creek Group. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and is on the Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project. She serves on the Advisory Board of Newman’s Own, Generation Investment Management, and H&Q Asia Pacific, and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Blum Center for Development Economies and the Jacobs Foundation.

In addition, she is a special advisor at Berkeley Research Group, and a commissioner at the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget. Tyson is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council; MIT Corporation; Committee on Capital Markets Regulation; Task Force for Better Markets, Better Values; and Think Long Committee for California. She is also a member of the National Academies’ Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, and the National Academies Committee on Research Universities.

Tyson serves on the boards of directors of Morgan Stanley, AT&T, Silver Spring Networks, CBRE Group Inc., and the Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics.

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