Professor Paul Zane Pilzer is a world-renowned economist, a highly successful social entrepreneur, an adjunct professor, a former White House economic advisor, and the author of nine best-selling books and dozens of scholarly publications. His books have been published in 25 languages and he has lectured at the world's leading universities from New York to Moscow to Peking.

Pilzer earned his BA from Lehigh University in 1974 in three years and his MBA from University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) in 1976 at age 22 in 15 months. At Wharton Graduate School, where he was a student-teacher in computer science, his thesis was an interactive teaching machine on a mainframe computer. He wrote on the cover of his thesis: "One day this technology will be used to affordably bring the best teacher of every subject to every student."

In 1976, Pilzer joined Citibank to work on credit card/EFT transfer systems and electronic banking. He became Citibank's youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest vice president at age 25. Since leaving Citibank in 1981, Pilzer has started, and/or taken public, five companies in the areas of education and health benefits--fulfilling the social entrepreneur ambition of "doing well by doing good."

At age 24, while working at Citibank, Pilzer was appointed an Adjunct Professor at New York University--where he taught for 21 consecutive years without missing a class and was voted "best professor" five times by NYU students.

Paul Zane Pilzer

He received an honorary doctorate in 2004 for his work in public service. He joined the White House in 1983 where he served (1983-1989) as an appointed economic advisor and senior regulatory official in two presidential administrations, he was a lecturer at Moscow University in the USSR (1983-1990), and he was a candidate for the U.S. Congress (1991).

After leaving the White House in 1989, Pilzer started Zane Publishing to actualize his 1976 dream of affordably bringing the best teacher of every subject to every student. Zane Publishing became the world's leading high school educational CDROM publisher and became a public company in 1995 (NASD:ZANE).

In 2005 he started The American Academy which quickly grew to become one of the leading online high schools. TAA today serves students worldwide and is particularly focused on addressing the U.S. high school dropout epidemic.

In addition to being an entrepreneur and public policy official, Pilzer is the author of nine bestselling books. His first book, Other People's Money (Simon & Schuster, 1989), exposed the $200 billion savings and loan crisis and was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and The Economist magazine.

Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth (Crown, 1991) explains how we live in a world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology. After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, said that he was "amazed at Pilzer's business capacity" and his "ability to put it into layman's terms."

Pilzer's God Wants You to be Rich: The Theology of Economics (Simon & Schuster, 1995/1997) explains how the foundation of our economic system is based on our Judeo-Christian heritage-this New York Times business best-seller was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and on television shows ranging from 60 Minutes to First Person with Maria Shriver.

In The New Wellness Revolution (Wiley, 2002/2007) Pilzer identifies the newly emerging wellness business and the financial implications of preventative medicine-this book earned him the title "wellness guru" by The New York Times. It has been published in 25 languages and is today an important bestseller in the People's Republic of China.

The Next Millionaires (Momentum Media, 2006) explains how the U.S. economy is now creating one million millionaires a year and how ordinary people can become one of them.

The New Health Insurance Solution (Wiley, 2005/2007) set forth a bold new direction for U.S. health insurance, and became a significant contributor to U.S. health care reform.

A former commentator on National Public Radio and CNN, Pilzer was profiled on the front page of The Wall St. Journal in 2007 and on the cover of more than 100 publications. He has appeared three times on the Larry King Live! television program. He speaks live each year to approximately 200,000 people, and more than 10 million audiotapes of his speeches have been sold. He lives in Utah with his wife and four children where they are all avid snowboarders, mountain bikers, and chess players.