Laura Tyson

Senior Fellow

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

Dr. Tyson is a member of the President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton administration and was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1993 and 1995, and the president’s national economic adviser between 1995 and 1996.

Since 2007, Dr. Tyson has served as a senior advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute and the Center for American Progress. She is a member of the MIT Corporation Board.  She serves on the advisory boards of Newman’s Own Foundation, The Rock Creek Group, Generation Investment Management, Credit Suisse Research Institute, H&Q Asia Pacific, and the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project. She serves on the boards of directors of Eastman Kodak Company, Morgan Stanley, AT&T, CB Richard Ellis, Silver Spring Networks, Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics, and the New America Foundation.

Dr. Tyson has written for many publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post and was a monthly columnist for BusinessWeek between 1998 and 2005. She has made numerous television appearances on economic issues. She is the author of numerous reports, academic papers and books on competitiveness, industrial policy and international trade, including the influential book Who’s Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries. 

Dr. Tyson has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Smith College and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Email: ltyson /@\ americanprogress.org