So President-elect Obama is set to name his economic team this morning. A lot of the names are a relatively inside baseball, but perhaps you may remember one familiar guy: Lawrence “women-suck-at-science” Summers.

Summers was Harvard’s 27th president, and during his tenure, he never strayed too far from controversy. At the Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce in January 2005, Summers said the reason there weren’t as many women in major science and engineering positions was because of different innate abilities that enable men to be better scientists than women. He also cited discrimination and that men are more willing to commit to the time demands.

He was also a vocal critic of African-American studies, particularly professor Cornel West. He claimed that West missed too many classes, contributed to grade inflation, and neglected serious scholarship. West later called Sumers “uninformed” and “an unprincipled power player” in is 2004 book, and left his post at Harvard to return to Princeton.

So basically, he’s kind of a tool, but he fortunately won’t be the face (or true voice) of the economic team. Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton, will be the head of Obama’s National Economic Council, so his job will deal with a lot of policy making, not a lot of talking.