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Bruce Yandle is dean emeritus of Clemson University's College of Business & Behavior Sciences and a professor of economics emeritus at Clemson. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Mercatus Center, a faculty member with George Mason University's Capitol Hill Campus, and a Senior Fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). He has served as executive director of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and served as senior economist on the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability from 1976 to 1978.

Yandle received his bachelor's degree from Mercer University and his MBA and PhD from Georgia State University. His main research interest are public choice, regulation and free market environmentalism. He has been president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, member and chairman of the S.C. State Board of Economic Advisors, and member and chairman of the Spartanburg Methodist College board of trustees. He produces a quarterly newsletter on the economic distributed by Clemson University's Thurmond Institute

Prior to starting his career in academia, Yandle had a fifteen-year career in the industrial machinery business. He lives with his wife in Clemson, South Carolina.