She served in the Office of Management and Budget during former President Clinton's first term in the White House, leading the office through the 1995 congressional deadlock and government shutdown. In 1996, she was named vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, working with Alan Greenspan on managing an economy that permitted a maximum of growth without inflation. Currently, she holds a Senior Fellowship in the Brookings Institute, a Washington-based think tank where future Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers has been spending his past few months. Today, she will be receiving a Doctorate of Laws.

ROBERT E. RUBIN '60

Rubin, today's keynote Commencement speaker, is the former Secretary of the Treasury, and a long time Wall Street insider. He is now chair of Citigroup, Inc.

A mentor for University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers, Rubin served as Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999.

Rubin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard college in 1960, and went on to attend Yale Law School.

He was chosen for the Treasury job after serving as the head of former President Bill Clinton's National Economic Council, and working for more than 25 years at Goldman Sachs.