Tomas J. Philipson
Tomas J. Philipson is a Swedish-born American economist who served as the Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration 2017-20. He departed from the position at the Council at the end of June, 2020, to return to the University of Chicago. He holds the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and has held posts in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, Department of Economics, and the Law School. He was a Director of the Becker Friedman Institute at the university.
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| Acting Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
| In office June 28, 2019 – June 24, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Kevin Hassett |
| Succeeded by | Tyler Goodspeed (Acting) |
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| Born | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Uppsala University (BS) Claremont Graduate University (MA) University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD) |
Philipson was a co-founder of Precision Health Economics in 2006, a premier healthcare consulting firm that was headquartered in Los Angeles with dozens of offices throughout US, Canada, and Europe before it was acquired by Precision for Medicine in 2015.
Education
Philipson was born and raised in Sweden where he obtained his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Uppsala University. After earning his MA in mathematics at the Claremont Graduate University, he went on to receive his MA and PhD in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Academia
After receiving his PhD, he joined the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow and thereafter joined the faculty. He has been a visiting faculty member at Yale University and a visiting fellow at The World Bank.
Philipson is a founding editor of the journal Forums for Health Economics & Policy of Berkeley Electronic Press, and has been on the editorial board of the journal Health Economics and The European Journal of Health Economics. His research has been published widely in journals such as The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and Econometrica.
Philipson has twice received the Kenneth Arrow Award of the International Health Economics Association (for best paper in the field of health economics). In addition, he was awarded the Garfield Award by Research America, the Prêmio Haralambos Simeonidisand from the Brazilian Economic Association, and the Distinguished Economic Research Award from the Milken Institute.
Dr. Philipson has been a monthly op-ed contributor to Forbes magazine, and has appeared in numerous popular media outlets such as CNN, CBS, NBC, FOX News, Bloomberg TV, BBC, CNBC, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Economist, The Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, and USA Today.
Philipson has been associated with many other institutions outside of the University including American Enterprise Institute, The National Bureau of Economic Research, The Milken Institute, The Heartland Institute, and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Initiative.
Government
Philipson served in the George W. Bush administration as the senior economic advisor to the head of the Food and Drug Administration, and subsequently as the senior economic advisor to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
He was an advisor to Republican Senator John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign. In 2016, Philipson was briefly a member of the Donald Trump presidential transition team. In 2017, Philipson was appointed by President Donald Trump to become one of three members of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Philipson played a leading role in the Trump administration's efforts to oppose Medicare for All health care systems, promote Trump's deregulation agenda, and promote the 2017 Republican tax legislation. After Kevin Hassett resigned as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in June 2019, Philipson was the Acting Chairman 2019-2020.
His departure from the White House in June 2020 occurred shortly after contracting COVID-19 but coincided with a required departure to retain tenure at the University after an extended 3 year leave of absence.
External links
- "Tomas J. Philipson". JSTOR.
- Anupam B. Jena; Thomas J. Phillipson; Eric C. Sun (16 October 2010). Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States. Government Institutes. ISBN 978-0-8447-4390-5.
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| Preceded by Kevin Hassett |
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Acting 2019–2020 |
Succeeded by Tyler Goodspeed Acting |
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