Tom Mueller PhD

Work Experience

• Investigative journalist (1995-present)
  • Published book – How to Make a Killing (W W Norton, August, 2023) on harmful US “healthcare”
  • Published book – Crisis of Conscience (Penguin-Random House, 2019) on whistleblowing
  • Published book – Extra Virginity (W W Norton, 2012), on food fraud: New York Times best-seller translated into 11 languages
  • Published feature articles in US and European magazines including New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and Business Week
  • Articles anthologized in Best American Science Writing, Best American Travel Writing, Travelers’ Tales: Australia and Travelers’ Tales: Italy, and elsewhere
• Film, TV, talks
  • Have served as interviewee, expert consultant and writer for television documentaries by BBC, 60 Minutes, History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery Channel, and others
  • Currently developing documentary film series on money-driven medicine and international olive oil/premium food fraud
  • TEDx talk: “Whistleblowers and Democracy,” Spokane Washington (26 January 2020)
• Visiting fellow, The New School (May 2024-present)
  • Senior Fellow, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy (New School)
• Project director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to improve US dialysis (May 2024-present)
  • Project title: “Identifying achievable solutions and formulating policy steps to alleviate the financialization trap of U.S. dialysis”
• Investment banking associate (1990-1993)
  • Associate in Mergers & Acquisitions at Goldman Sachs, at their European headquarters in London and Frankfurt. Worked on transactions in 8 European countries

Academic Degrees, Honors, Appointments

• Oxford University, Doctor of Philosophy
  • Rhodes Scholar
  • Doctoral thesis recommended for publication by the examining board, and placed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts
  • Graduated summa cum laude
  • Junior Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar, Cummings Prize for best senior thesis

• Elected Member of Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence, Italy (June 2018)
• Senior Research Fellow at the Vienna Centre for Societal Security (VICESSE)
• Associate of the Institutet för Framtidsstudier (Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden)

Additional Experience

• Languages
  • English native speaker
  • Fluent /advanced in Italian, German, French and Spanish
• International Experience
  • Have lived or worked in 51 countries
  • Widespread travel on five continents
• Classical Guitar
  • Studied classical and flamenco guitar in Seville, Spain with América Martínez, a disciple of Segovia (1989-1990)
• Sports and Pursuits
  • Tennis: member of Harvard tennis team
  • Rock climbing as high as grade 7c+ / 5.13
  • Alpine climbing
  • Chess: club-level player (though to be honest, I’m better writing about chess than playing it!)