Williamson Evers
Williamson Evers | |
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| Born | October 18, 1948 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Political party | Libertarian (before 2000) Republican (2000–present) |
Williamson M. "Bill" Evers (born October 18, 1948) is a former American libertarian activist and education researcher. In 1988, he became a resident scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution first as a national fellow, then as a visiting scholar, and most recently as a research fellow there and at The Independent Institute. He went on leave from Hoover to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development in the United States Department of Education in 2007 to 2009. At the beginning of September 2016, he was selected to lead the "agency action team" for the Department of Education in the Trump-Pence transition.