Senior Economist and Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Thomas F. Siems is senior economist and policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As a member of the free enterprise group, Siems' research focuses primarily on how enabling technologies, particularly the Internet and e-commerce, impact productivity and the economy. He is also a senior lecturer with the Engineering Management, Information and Systems Department in the School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University and an advisory board member of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice. Siems has published more than 45 articles, some of which have appeared in such journals as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, European Journal of Political Economy, Research in Finance, Review of Financial Economics, The Annals of Operations Research, and various Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas publications.

Siems earned a B.S.E. in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan in 1982 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1991, respectively. In addition, Siems is a 1989 graduate of the Public Finance Institute at the University of Michigan and a 1991 alumnus of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. Siems began his career with the Federal Reserve in 1984.

Siems is active in the Bank's economic education programs and has taught economics, statistics, finance, operations management and other business courses at SMU, LeTourneau University and the University of Dallas.