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Anita Arrow Summers (September 9, 1925 – October 22, 2023) was an American educator of public policy, management, real estate and education and was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1967, she began teaching economics at Swarthmore College. She led the urban economic department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1971 to 1979, when she joined the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to start the first public policy department in a business school. She chaired that department from 1983 to 1988. She was a member of Provost's Academic Planning and Budget Committee from 1984 to 1990, in addition to many other University activities. She was Ombudsman of the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2003.
Summers was a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Awards at Wharton several times. She was a member of the board of directors and chair of the Audit Committee of Meridian Bancorp from 1987 to 1996. She was chair of the Board of Directors of Mathematica Policy Research from 1993 to 2010.
Summers was later on the Board of Trustees of Waverly Heights, Inc. and President of the Penn Association of Senior and Emeritus Professors of the University of Pennsylvania.
Summers was also a senior research fellow at Wharton's Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center. Summers authored and edited many books and reports.
She came from a family of well-known economists, including husband Robert Summers, son Lawrence Summers, brother Kenneth Arrow (who received a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972) and brother-in-law Paul Samuelson (who received a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970)
Anita Summers died in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2023, at the age of 98.
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