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Dr. Thomas R. Saving is the director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics.

Dr. Saving received his PhD 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. Dr. Saving's research has covered the areas of antitrust economics, monetary economics, and health economics. He has served as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major United States economics journals, and as co-editor of Economic Inquiry from 1997-2006. His current research emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving the pressing issues in health care and Social Security. He is the co-editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, University of Chicago Press, 1999, and the co-author of The Economics of Medicare Reform, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000, and The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare, AEI, 2007. In addition, he has many articles in professional journals and two influential books on monetary theory. 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.