Todd G. Buchholz is an economist and has served as a White House director of economic policy and a managing director of the eminent Tiger hedge fund, where he helped lead the macro team!s investments in global bonds and foreign exchange. He has also been a consultant to some of the leading investment groups in the world. In the White House of President George H.W. Bush, Buchholz coordinated decision-making in tax, finance, energy, and technology; organized presidential briefings by the Federal Reserve chairman; and drafted decision memos for the President on fiscal and regulatory policy.
Buchholz was founding president of the G7 Group, and has advised central banks, including the Bundesbank, Bank of Japan, and Bank of England, as well as investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and HSBC, where he managed a foreign exchange portfolio. He has debated fiscal and monetary policy with such officials as Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former CEA chairs Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman.
Buchholz holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge University and Harvard. Harvard!s Department of Economics awarded him the Allyn Young Teaching Prize and he served as a Fellow at Cambridge University in 2009. He was named “One of the Top 21 Speakers of the 21st Century” by Successful Meetings magazine and has delivered keynote presentations at the U.K. Parliament, White House library, U.S. Treasury, and the Abu Dhabi and Mexico City stock exchanges.
Buchholz contributes commentaries on finance and trade to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and professional articles to the Brookings Institution’s Policy Matters, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, IMF Finance & Development; Journal of Law & Religion; Review of Economic Conditions (Italy), et al.
His books have been translated into 15 languages. New Ideas from Dead Economists, featuring a foreword by Martin Feldstein and endorsed by Milton Friedman, is listed as a “classic” by the American Economic Association and has been on the recommended reading list of Goldman Sachs, as well as the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. His most recent book, The Price of Prosperity, was praised by such diverse voices as Alan Blinder, Lawrence Summers, Glenn Hubbard, and Michael Boskin, and was named a “must-read” by The Wall Street Journal.
Buchholz’s other books include Rush, named a top ten book in the social sciences by Publishers Weekly; New Ideas from Dead CEOs; From Here to Economy; Market Shock; Bringing the Jobs Home; and a novel about a boxer and hedge funds, called The Castro Gene, which won a USA Best Books prize. Buchholz has appeared on the BBC, Fox, Bloomberg, PBS, has hosted his own special on CNBC, and is the only person to guest-host CNBC’s Squawk Box two days in a row.
Buchholz is a founding producer of Jersey Boys on Broadway and co-writer of the new musical Glory Ride, which premiered in London in 2023 and was named a Critic!s Choice by The Times.
Buchholz holds engineering and design patents. He is co-founder of Sproglit, LLC, which develops educational software to teach mathematics to children. Sproglit’s games are based on Buchholz’s invention, the Math Arrow, a mathematical matrix that has been called “ingenious” by Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellphone and “exciting” by Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York City Schools.