Henry Parker Willis (August 14, 1874 – July 18, 1937)[1] was an American financial expert and economist.
He was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, the son of the Universalist minister and suffragist Olympia Brown.
He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1897 and was a member of Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity.
[2] He served as an expert to the Ways and Means and Banking and Currency committees of the United States House of Representatives, and in other positions.
[4] In 1926, he was appointed the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Banking and the Issue of Notes, a committee established by the government of the Irish Free State to determine what changes were necessary in relation to banking and banknote issue, which recommended the creation of a new currency for the state.