Dr Byron Schlomach

Byron Schlomach has had a long career in state-level public policy. He has researched and written broadly in a number of areas including economic development, transportation, public education, welfare, health care, energy, climate change, government finance and transparency, regulation, and occupational licensing.

He has been published in numerous newspapers in Texas, Arizona, and Oklahoma as well as Business Week Online, National Review Online, The Hill, and The Washington Times.

Byron began his state policy career as a legislative aide for a state representative in Texas. He later became Chief Economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, authoring a number of studies and inadvertently starting the transparency movement when he demanded that school districts post individual expenditures online.

At the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona Byron authored studies on public sector unionization, public pension systems, state spending and taxation, health care, and transportation policy. His impacts in all of these areas were generally recognized, but he is especially proud of being first, or one of the first, to call for price transparency in health care.

Byron ended his think-tank career as Director of the 1889 Institute in Oklahoma where he was also Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at Oklahoma State University.

Doctor Schlomach earned his Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University. He continues to serve in public policy in his capacity as a City Councilman in Piedmont, Oklahoma and consults with Honduras Próspera, a Special Economic Zone in Honduras.