New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is set to resign from his teaching post at Harvard University over links disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers will resign from his academic and faculty role at the university, relinquishing his University Professorship Harvard's highest faculty distinction, reported student newspaper The Harvard Crimson, citing a varsity spokesperson.

The former US Treasury Secretary, who has been on leave since November, will continue to remain away from campus till his resignation takes effect at the end of the academic year.

Summers on Wednesday also resigned from his role at as co-director of Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Busin...