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Tyler Goodspeed

Adjunct Scholar

Dr. Tyler Goodspeed is the Chief Economist of ExxonMobil Corporation and has been an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute since 2014. He previously chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration, having also served as Senior Economist, Chief Economist for Macroeconomic Policy, and Vice Chairman. From 2020–21 chaired the Economic Policy Committee at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

From 2021 through 2023, Dr. Goodspeed was a Director and Chief Economist at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm advising some of the world’s largest hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms, asset managers, and corporations.

The author of four books on economic history, Dr. Goodspeed holds a PhD in economics from Cambridge University and a PhD in history from Harvard University, as well as a BA in economics and history from Harvard, an MA in history from Harvard, and an MPhil in economic history from Cambridge. He has held faculty appointments at Oxford University, King’s College London, and Stanford University, and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute in London and a member of the Geoeconomic Council of Advisers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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