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. 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 Urban Affairs Coalition. and the 2022 Labor and Employment Relations Association Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. Education and early life Anderson was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned the B.A. degree in economics at Livingstone College; the M.A. degree in economics at Michigan State University where he studied under Andrew F. Brimmer, his lifetime mentor, and the Ph D. In economic from the University of Pennsylvania. He was the seventh African American to earn the Ph.D degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, following Sadie T. M. Alexander, the first African American of either gender to earn a Ph.D in economics in the U. S. Career Anderson worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and then became the second African American member