Paul Thomas, Ph.D.

Chief Economist of Intel Corporation

Paul Thomas is chief economist and manager of market sizing and forecasting at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif. He joined Intel in December, 2004, after working at Continental Airlines in Houston, Texas, from 1997 to 2004 and as chief economist from 2001 to 2004. Paul was senior economist at Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. from 1988 to 1997. Prior to that, he served on the economics faculties of Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, and of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Paul holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds an M.S. in social science and a B.S. in biology from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Paul was a National Science Foundation fellow in economics. He also served as a research fellow in economics studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Paul is a member of the National Business Economics Issue Council, the Conference of Business Economists, the Harvard University Discussion Group of Industrial Economists, the European Council of Economists, the Global Interdependence Center, the American Economic Association (AEA) and serves on the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Board of Directors. He is currently serving on an AEA advisory committee for the US Census Bureau and on an advisory council for the Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Management in Ronneby, Sweden.