Areas of Expertise
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 London Business School from
2002 to 2006 and as dean of the Haas School of Business from 1998 to 2001.
Dr. Tyson is a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Jobs and
Competitiveness. She was a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery
Advisory Board (2009–2011). She served in the Clinton Administration
and was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993-1995) and
the President’s National Economic Adviser (1995–1996).
Dr. Tyson is a senior advisor at the McKinsey Global Institute, Credit
Suisse Research Institute, and The Rock Creek Group. She is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is a member of the MIT
Corporation. Dr. Tyson is on the Advisory Council of the Brookings
Institution Hamilton Project and is an Advisory Board member of Newman’s
Own, Generation Investment Management, and H&Q Asia Pacific.
Dr. Tyson is
a special advisor to the Berkeley Research Group and a commissioner for
the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget. Dr. Tyson is a chair for
the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Gender Gap. She
is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and
of the Think Long Committee for California. She is on the board of the
National Academies’ Science, Technology and Economic Policy and is a
member of the National Academies Committee on Research Universities. Dr.
Tyson serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Eastman Kodak
Company, Morgan Stanley, AT&T, Silver Spring Networks, CB Richard
Ellis, the Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics, and
New America Foundation.
Dr. Tyson has written books and articles on industrial competitiveness and
trade. She has also written opinion columns for many publications
including BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and the Financial Times, and
she has made numerous television appearances on economic issues. She is
on the editorial board of the International Economy and contributes to
the New York Times Economix blog and Financial Times A-list.
