Lawrence S. Bacow

Lawrence S. Bacow is an American lawyer, economist, author, and higher-education leader. He earned an S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and three degrees from Harvard University: a J.D., an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy. He spent 24 years on the MIT faculty, served as the Institute’s chancellor from 1998 to 2001, and was president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011.

Bacow served as the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. His published work includes a foreword to Samuel Jay Keyser’s Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows.