托马斯·尼斯纳(Thomas J. Kniesner)出生于俄亥俄州克利夫兰,并获得了博士学位。俄亥俄州立大学经济学学位。目前,他是锡拉丘兹大学的克里希尔经济学名誉教授。在2002 - 2006年期间,他担任锡拉丘兹大学经济系主席。2013年,他加入了克莱蒙特研究生大学的学院,担任校长和大学教授的特别助理。
在来到锡拉丘兹大学之前,尼斯纳博士是印第安纳大学经济系,北卡罗来纳大学教堂山经济学系和杜克大学政策研究所的北卡罗来纳大学。尼斯纳博士还曾担任里根经济顾问委员会总统工作人员的高级劳工经济学家。He has lived in Japan where he was Visiting Scholar at Keio University, in Australia where he was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Department of Statistics of the Faculties and Department of Economics of the Research School of the Social Sciences, and in the Netherlands where he was visiting Scholar at the CentER for Economic Research of Tilburg University. More recently, Dr. Kniesner has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace and University College London, a Visiting Research Fellow in the Division of Health Services and Policy Research of Eli Lilly and Company, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis. During Spring 2001 he was a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Kniesner博士是Phi Beta Kappa的成员。He has received the University of Mississippi’s Otho Smith Medallion for service to the economics profession, and his biography has appeared in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Men of Achievement, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.