page_title: Thomas W. Gilligan
section_title: Teaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas W. Gilligan / Teaching career
caption_attribution_description: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a roundtable discussion with Hoover Institute Fellows at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California on January 13, 2020. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Thomas W. Gilligan is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Prior to taking over as head of the Stanford-based think tank, he served as dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Gilligan previously held a variety of positions at the University of Southern California from 1987 until 2008.
context_section_description: After graduation from Washington University, Gilligan was Assistant Professor of Economics and taught undergraduate and PhD level courses in economics and political economy at the California Institute of Technology until 1987. For the next two decades, Gilligan taught a variety of courses and held multiple positions at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California until becoming dean at the McCombs School of Business. At the Marshall School, Gilligan was the interim dean for over a year from February 2006 until James G. Ellis replaced him in April 2007. Also, Gilligan was a visiting professor from the late-1980s until the mid-1990s at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management.
caption: Gilligan (left) participates in a discussion with fellow Secretaries of State at the Hoover Institution in 2019
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