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'''Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers ''' (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia. Lawrence Summers currently is the Director of the [[White House]]'s [[National Economic Council]] (NEC) for President [[Barack Obama]].
He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign after suggesting that the wide disparities between male and female academics in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields.