Gary Wolfram

Gary Wolfram is George Munson Professor of political economy at Hillsdale College as well as president of Hillsdale Policy Group, a consulting firm specializing in taxation and policy analysis. He previously worked as chief of staff for Congressman Nick Smith's Washington office, deputy state treasurer for taxation and economic policy for Governor, John Engler, and senior economist for the Republican Senate in Michigan. Dr. Wolfram is the author of Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Markets and the Political System and several works on Michigan's tax structure and public policy issues. In 2004, he was named Hillsdale College's Professor of the Year. Dr. Wolfram is a member and former chairman of the board of trustees of Lake Superior State University and was a member of Michigan's State Board of Education from 1993-1999, chairman of the Headlee Amendment Blue Ribbon Commission for the State of Michigan, and a member of the Michigan Enterprise Zone Authority. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and received a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.