Legislative Breakfast with the Chamber - 03/02/2010

Tom Gillaspy has served as the Minnesota State Demographer since 1979. During that time, he has been involved with a wide-ranging set of issue, applying an understanding of demographic trends in such areas as the state’s economy, health care for an aging population, welfare reform, rural population change, labor shortages, government spending, and the aging state workforce.

The State Demographer is part of the Minnesota Planning Agency, whose mission is to inform policy decisions through long-range planning and to provide policy makers and the public with accurate information and analysis about emerging and critical issues.

Prior to moving to Minnesota, Tom held the position of demographer at the Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Pennsylvania State University, specializing in economic demography. He also holds a Masters Degree in agricultural economics. Born and raised in Texas, he received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.