Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced on Wednesday that he would resign from his tutorial and college appointments at Harvard College on the finish of the tutorial 12 months.
Summers — who has been on depart from the college since November — additionally resigned from his position because the co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Middle for Enterprise and Authorities, in accordance with a Harvard spokesperson.
The resignation was made “in reference to the continuing assessment by the College of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein that have been just lately launched by the federal government,” the spokesperson stated.
“I’ve made the tough resolution to retire from my Harvard professorship on the finish of this tutorial 12 months,” Summers, a former Harvard president, stated in a press release. “I’ll all the time be grateful to the hundreds of scholars and colleagues I’ve been privileged to show and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate pupil 50 years in the past.”
Larry Summers, president emeritus and professor at Harvard College, throughout an interview in New York Metropolis, Sept. 17, 2025.
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He added, “Freed from formal duty, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look ahead in time to partaking in analysis, evaluation, and commentary on a spread of worldwide financial points.”
The information was first reported by the Harvard Crimson.
Summers introduced in November he was stepping again from public life after his obvious conversations with Epstein, the late intercourse offender who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019, have been launched by the Home Oversight Committee.
“I’m deeply ashamed of my actions and acknowledge the ache they’ve brought on. I take full duty for my misguided resolution to proceed speaking with Mr. Epstein,” Summers stated in a press release on the time.
ABC Information beforehand reported that Summers maintained a relationship with Epstein for a few years, significantly throughout Summers’ time period as president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.
He flew at the least 4 instances on Epstein’s plane, in accordance with flight data made public throughout litigation towards Epstein and he was the highest official at Harvard throughout a time when the college obtained thousands and thousands in items from the disgraced financier.
All of these items have been obtained previous to Epstein’s responsible plea in Florida in 2008 to costs of solicitation of prostitution with a minor, in accordance with the college’s assessment of its Epstein connections.
No Epstein survivor has alleged wrongdoing by Summers and there’s no public document proof to recommend Summers was concerned in any of Epstein’s crimes.
Summers served as U.S. treasury secretary beneath President Invoice Clinton from 1999 to 2001.
