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.
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. In appointing Dr. Tyson as his National Economic Adviser, President Clinton praised her for offering “unfailingly frank, direct and principled advice.” 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 was responsible for providing the President and his National Economic Council with advice and analysis on all economic policy matters, 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 has 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 Boards of Directors of Ameritech Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, Eastman Kodak Company, Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., Healtheon Corporation, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., the Institute for International Economics, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co., and the New America Foundation. She is a principal of the Law & Economics Consulting Group and a member of The Trilateral Commission. She serves on the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation; the Advisory Boards of Barter Trust, Epiphany, the 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. Dr. Tyson served as a member of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare from 1997 to 1999.
She is an Economic Viewpoint columnist for Business Week magazine and a commentator for Nightly Business Report. She writes regularly about domestic and international economic policy matters in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other nationally and internationally syndicated newspapers and magazines.
