Malcolm Gillis was President of Rice University from 1993-2004. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 1991-1993. He is now a University Professor and the Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics at Rice University. He spent the first 25 years of his professional life teaching economics and bringing economic analysis to bear on important issues of public policy in nearly 20 countries, from the United States and Canada to Ecuador, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia and Korea. From 1986-2004, his career was devoted primarily but not exclusively to university leadership.  During that period, he continued to publish in his scholarly specialties.  Gillis' research and teaching activities fall into three broad categories: fiscal economics, environmental policy and 21st Century technology.  

He has published more than 70 journal and book articles.  He is author, co-author, and editor of eight books, including a widely acclaimed 1988 publication, Public Policies and the Misuse of Forest Resources, Tax Reform in Developing Countries.  He was principal author of the leading textbook in the field, Economics of Development (5th edition, 2002), now available in five languages.  Gillis served as a member of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1998 to 2006.  He is a life member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and a Board Member of the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame and Flight Museum.  His record features university leadership and substantial service to his profession, governments, foundations and memberships in several profit and non-profit boards.  He chaired the Vietnam Education Foundation from 2005-2008, and is co-chairman of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which opens in 2008.  He served as chair of BioHouston from 2006-2009. He is a founding member of the Board at Jacob University Bremen in Germany.  He is the founder (2001) of the Texas/UK research collaborative on Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, and co-founder of the Boniuk Center for the Study of Religious Tolerance, at Rice University.  

Professor Gillis remains active in teaching at Rice University, in the Economics Department.  In 2008, he was appointed by the Governor of Texas to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee, and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board.

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