Tom Wyler is a member of the Commerce Department’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning and serves as Counselor to the Secretary and Senior Advisor for International Economics.  Tom is responsible for counseling the Secretary on the full range of international economic policy issues before the Department of Commerce.  

He also manages the Department’s Global Economics team and is the Secretary’s primary advisor on the broader geo-economic & geo-political challenges facing the Obama Administration.  He is responsible for coordinating and developing Secretary Pritzker’s international economic agenda, including on matters related to commercial diplomacy and trade policy & promotion.  Before joining the Obama Administration, Tom was a finance and banking attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton and an aide in the U.S. Senate. 

He is the author of numerous articles and publications, including Mutually Assured Depression and Wiping the Slate: Maintaining Capital Markets While Addressing the Odious Debt Dilemma.  Tom received his J.D. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, both in 2008.  He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.