Lester Thurow has been a professor of management and economics at MIT for more than 30 years. He is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, author of numerous bestsellers and worldwide famous economist.

In the past, Lester Thurow served on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek, and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists.

Mr. Thurow is on the board of directors of Analog Devices, and TSMC.