Laura Tyson

Interim Dean, Haas School of Business

Laura D. Tyson is the Interim Dean at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (July 2018 – December 2018). She chairs the Blum Center for Developing Economies Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley and is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact at Berkeley Haas. Tyson was the Dean of London Business School from 2002-2006 and the Dean of the Berkeley Haas from 1998-2001. Tyson was a member of the US Department of State Foreign Affairs Policy Board. She was also a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton Administration as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993-1995) and as Director of the National Economic Council (1995 – 1996). She is a member of the Board of Directors of AT&T, CBRE Group Inc., Lexmark International Inc., and Apex Swiss Holdings SARL. She is the co-author of Leave No One Behind, a report for the United Nation’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment.