David R. Henderson is an emeritus professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a senior fellow with Canada’s Fraser Institute. He was previously a senior economist for health policy and energy policy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers.

Henderson is the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, the only reader-friendly encyclopedia of economics and has written two other books, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey and Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (coauthored with Charles L. Hooper.) He has written more than three hundred articles for such popular publications as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the National Review, Defining Ideas, and Reason. He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

He has also appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The John Stossel Show, The O’Reilly Factor, and networks including C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, RT, NPR, CBC, and BBC. Born and raised in Canada, he moved to the United States in 1972 to earn his PhD in economics at UCLA. He became a US citizen in April 1986.

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