Thomas D. Willett
Internationally renowned economist and public servant Thomas Willett is Horton Professor
of Economics at Claremont Graduate University, where he also serves as director of the
Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies and co-director of the Freeman Foundation
Program in Asian Political Economy. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
Willett is the author or co-author of nine books and pamphlets and the editor of eighteen
more. He has also authored over 200 authored or co-authored articles in journals and books.
Willett has served as a member and secretary of the president-elect's task force on balance of
payments policy in 1968, as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury from
1970 to 1972, and as a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisors in 1969 and from
1970 to 1971. He conducted research as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund
in 2001. He has served as economics editor of Public Policy, as co-editor of Economic
Inquiry, and as editor of a series, The Political Economy of Global Interdependence,
published by Westview Press. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia
and a bachelor's degree, with a double major in economics and mathematics, from the
College of William and Mary.