DR. DAVID R. HENDERSON is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, and Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal and Fortune. In 1984, he won the Mencken award for investigative journalism for his first Fortune article, "The Myth of MITI." Formerly a monthly columnist for Red Herring, Henderson has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Henderson was previously senior economist for health and energy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He has testified against the draft before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on taxes before the House Ways and Means Committee, and on health policy before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. In the late 1970s, Henderson spoke on college campuses and on television against a renewal of military conscription.
Born and raised in Canada, Henderson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Winnipeg in 1970 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.