USA Today quotes CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet on President-elect Obama's recent appointments of CGD board members Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner.
From the article:
"Though unassuming, Geithner is sufficiently forceful to stand up to Summers, a brilliant economist whose people skills are sometimes found wanting.
"It's hard to push back on Larry. It can be a little intimidating," says Steven Radelet of the Center for Global Development, who worked with both men at Treasury. "Tim can push back on Larry. Larry respects him a lot."
Geithner also will bring a globalist's outlook to Treasury. As a child, he spent several years in countries such as Thailand and India, where his father was a Ford Foundation executive. He studied Chinese and Japanese and graduated from Dartmouth College, also Paulson's alma mater, with a degree in government and Asian studies. He holds a master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in international economics and East Asian studies."