A Conversation with W. Allen Wallis

Abstract

Wilson Allen Wallis was born on November 5, 1912 in Philadelphia. He was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota and continued graduate studies there, at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University. He held faculty positions at Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago and administrative positions at Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester, where he was President or Chancellor from 1962 until 1982, when he became Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, a position he held until 1989. He is now a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington. He held appointments of a year or two each at the U.S. National Resources Committee, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and The White House, where he was Special Assistant to President Eisenhower from 1959 to 1961. He has been a member of numerous government and foundation panels and advisory committees and a trustee or director of many business, educational and eleemosy-