Ken Schoolland is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Schoolland served as an international economist in the US International Trade Commission, the US Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. He taught at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska and on a university exchange program at Hakodate University in Japan. He later became Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies Program at Chaminade University.

Schoolland is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Individual Liberty, a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise, and has authored The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey, now published in 30 languages.