Biography

Christopher T. King is a Labor Economist and a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Ray Marshall Center, which he directed from 1991 to 2014. He has been conducting research on workforce, education and social policy issues for over four decades and has written widely on these topics, authoring or co-authoring numerous books, articles, and reports. He was Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah (1973-1976), an Economist with the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1976-1980), and Director of Research and Evaluation for Job Training in the Texas Governor’s Office (1983-1985). He has a B.A. in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.