Thomas F. Siems

Senior Economist and Economic Outreach Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Thomas Siems is senior economist and economic outreach officer in the Financial Institution Relationship Management Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In this capacity, he partners with economists in the Fed to gather information on emerging trends and policy issues of interest to financial institutions in this region (Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico). He also oversees economic outreach efforts that provide additional opportunities to listen and learn from the region's constituents.

Siems teaches operations research and management science courses in the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University and is the Lyle School's chief engineering economist. Thomas earned a BSE in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS and PhD in operations research from SMU. He is also a graduate of the University of Michigan's Public Finance Institute, the University of Colorado's Graduate School of Banking and SMU's Graduate Marketing Certificate program.

Siems has published more than 50 articles in various academic journals, books and Federal Reserve publications and is the National Association for Business Economics' only two-time winner of the Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award. His work has received extensive attention from leading publications, including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, USA Today, American Banker, Dallas Morning News, and Investor's Business Daily. Siems has also authored and published five children's picture books, including his newest release in 2009, The Dangerous Pet, which poetically challenges the way the next generation thinks about debt.