Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from his position as a professor at Harvard University at the end of the academic year, New York Times reported, following scrutiny over his connections with convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Jason Newton, spokesperson for Harvard, confirmed that Summers’ resignation comes as part of an ongoing review of recently released government documents related to the Epstein case.
Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton and later as President of Harvard in the early 2000s, had announced in November his intention to step back from public life while initially retaining his university position. He has also resigned from the board of OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT AI platform.
The government documents included personal conversations between Summers and Epstein, though they do not indicate any wrongdoing by the former official and academic. Summers expressed in November that he was “deeply ashamed” of his actions and would step back to repair relationships with his family.
This resignation marks a significant turn for Summers, whose reputation has been heavily scrutinized amid growing public attention to the Epstein scandal.
