From US Secretary of the Treasury to Harvard President to... (July 14, 2006)

    A year and a half after his controversial remarks on the scientific talents of women, which opened the avenue for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to chase Lawrence Summers from the Harvard Presidency last month, the 51-year-old economist was appointed a professor at the university's Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Business School.

Professor Summers will begin teaching and research in the northern autumn of 2007, after a year's sabbatical.