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Sulgrave Manor is proud to announce the sixth in the new series of lectures from "the Watson Chair of American History, Literature and Institutions", founded in 1919, at a time when no university in Britain had either a Chair or a Lectureship in American Studies.
2011 Sir George Watson Chair Lecture
President Emeritus Lawrence H Summers
chaired by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, PC
18.30 Thursday 10th November 2011
Central Hall, Westminster SW1H 9NH
followed by a Reception and Dinner
Tickets £120 including a suggested donation
of £30 can be obtained from:
watson.chair@sulgravemanor.org.uk
Lawrence H Summers
Lawrence H Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University and Charles W Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics andchief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States from 1999 to 2001.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a PhD from Harvard in 1982. In 1983 he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987 Mr Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.