Tom Gilligan

Current public company boards: KB Home

Prior public company boards: Southwest Airlines

Executive Experience: Dr. Tom Gilligan is currently an Emeritus Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, a position he has held since September 2020. In addition, since September 2021, Tom has been a clinical professor of finance and a senior scholar at the McCombs School of Business Salem Center for Policy. From September 2015 until September 2020, he served as the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, which is a public policy research center devoted to the advanced study of economics, politics, history, political economy, and international affairs. Tom has deep knowledge of and significant academic credentials in the fields of finance, economics, and business administration. He also brings extensive leadership skills and experience from his many years of service as a dean at two of the premier post-graduate business schools in the country and his immediate past position as the head of a prominent public policy institution.  Tom joined the board of KB Homes in 2012. He is chair of the audit and compliance committee and member of the nominating and corporate governance committee.