# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-bacow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:02.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-bacow"
name: "Lawrence Bacow"
slug: "lawrence-bacow"
description: "Lawrence Seldon Bacow is an American economist and retired university administrator. Bacow served as the 12th president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011 and as the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. Before that, he was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School."
tagline: "American economist and lawyer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1951-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Lawrence Bacow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump