Dr. Thomas R. Saving is Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics and is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Dr. Saving received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and served on the faculty at the University of Washington at Seattle and Michigan State University before moving to Texas A&M University in 1968. He has served as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major United States economics journals, and just concluded a ten-year term as co-editor of Economic Inquiry.

His current research emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving the pressing issues in health care and Social Security. He is a co-editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, University of Chicago Press, 1999, the co-author of The Economics of Medicare Reform, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000 and The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare, AEI Press, 2007. Dr. Saving has been elected to the post of President of the Western Economics Association, the Southern Economics Association and the Association of Private Enterprise Education.

In 2000, President Clinton appointed Dr. Saving as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. On May 2, 2001, President Bush named Dr. Saving to the bipartisan President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. On April 19, 2006, President Bush appointed Dr. Saving for a second term as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. Dr. Saving’s service as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds expires at the close of 2007.