Laura D’Andrea Tyson has been Dean of London Business School since January 2002. She was formerly Dean of the Haas School of Business, at the University of California at Berkeley.

Laura served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 to 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. Laura 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. Laura also served as a member of the President’s National Security Council and Domestic Policy Council. Prior to her appointment as National Economic Adviser, Laura 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, Laura 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 has also published several books and articles on the economies of Central Europe and their transition to market systems.

Laura has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Smith College (1969) and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974). She is a member of the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, Eastman Kodak Company, Human Genome Sciences Inc, Morgan Stanley Company, and SBC Communications Inc. In January 2003, Laura was appointed Chair of The Task Force on Non-Executive Directors by the UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry. She is also an Economic Viewpoint columnist for Business Week magazine.