Williamson Evers

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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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2] 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.^{[3][better source needed]}