Bernard E. Anderson

Bernard E. Anderson is the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the first African American tenured professor, and the first to be awarded an endowed chair, the Whitney M Young,jr chair. He was Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee University. He was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award by the National Economic Association in 2003. He was also awarded the 2016 Living Legacy Award from the Philadelphia-based Urban Affairs Coalition. and the 2022 Labor and Employment Relations Association Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Bernard E. Anderson
United States Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards
In office
Feb 24, 1994 – January 20, 2001
PresidentWilliam J. Clinton
Succeeded byVictoria Lipnic
Academic career
InstitutionBureau of Labor Statistics
Wharton School
Rockefeller Foundation
FieldIndustrial Economics, Labor Economics
Alma materLivingstone College (BA) Michigan State University (MA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
AwardsSamuel Z. Westerfield Award
Personal details
NationalityAmerican
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