Education
Timothy Hauser graduated from Mountain. Lebanon High School near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1966. He then attended Georgetown University, earning a master"s degree in international relations in 1972.
Timothy Hauser graduated from Mountain. Lebanon High School near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1966. He then attended Georgetown University, earning a master"s degree in international relations in 1972.
He did additional postgraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, District of Columbia and in Bologna, Italy. He was fluent in both Italian and French. Hauser served in the United States Army as a Captain in the 1970s.
He went to work as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1971.
He moved to the United States Department of Commerce on the staff of the assistant secretary for policy before 1980. In 1986, he was detailed to the White House for a year as deputy executive secretary of the Economic Policy Council, after which he returned to the Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary of planning.
In 1991, he became the first career civil servant to be appointed deputy undersecretary of the Commerce Department. The International Trade Administration has established the Hauser Award in his honour.