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Laura tyson li biography
Laura Tyson
American business academic
Laura D'Andrea Tyson (born June 28, ) is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute.
She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from to and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from to under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts.[1] She remains the only person to have served in both posts.
Early life and education
Tyson was born Laura D'Andrea in New Jersey.[2] Her father was Italian American and her mother was of Swedish and Dutch descent.[3] Tyson graduated summa cum laude with a B.A.
in Economics from Smith College in and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in [4] Her doctoral