Thomas W. Gilligan

Dr. Thomas W. Gilligan is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, a position he was appointed to in September 2015. The Hoover Institution is a public policy research center devoted to the advanced study of economics, politics, history, and political economy, as well as international affairs. From 2008 until his appointment at the Hoover Institution, Dr. Gilligan served as the Dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his appointment at the McCombs School of Business, Dr. Gilligan held several key administrative roles at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC), including as interim Dean, as the Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Education, as director of the Ph.D. program, and as the Chair of the Finance and Business Economics Department. Dr. Gilligan holds the Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership. He is a director of Southwest Airlines Co., and has served as a consultant to businesses in the entertainment, agriculture, service and construction industries, dealing with antitrust and contract issues, as well as pricing strategies. Dr. Gilligan joined the Board in 2012.