Bill Frenzel

Areas of Expertise

Politics, international tax, budgeting, investment

Biography

Bill Frenzel has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., since January 1991, when he retired from the U.S. House of Representatives after serving his Minnesota constituency for 20 years. 

Frenzel was the ranking minority member on the House Budget Committee and was the principal Republican economic spokesperson in the House. He was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Trade Subcommittee, as well as a Congressional representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva for 15 years.

In 1993, he was appointed as Special Advisor to President Clinton for NAFTA. In 2001, President Bush appointed Frenzel to the Social Security Commission and, in 2002, to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN).

Frenzel is the vice chairman of the Eurasia Foundation, co-chairman of the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, co-chairman of the Bretton Woods Committee, co-chairman of the Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget, chairman of the executive committee of the International Tax and Investment Center, and chairman emeritus of the Ripon Society. 

Frenzel received his bachelor of arts and MBA from Dartmouth College and served as a Naval Officer during the Korean War.

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