- Kevin Martin
Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born December 14 1966) is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30 2001, and was confirmed on May 25 2001. President Bush renominated Martin to a new five year term on April 25 2006, and he was reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 17 2006.
- Matt Yglesias
Matt Yglesias (born May 18, 1981) is a popular American political blogger and a prominent voice in the liberal blogosphere. Yglesias attended Harvard University where he studied philosophy. He graduated "magna cum laude" in 2003. He was editor-in-chief of "The Harvard Independent", a weekly newsmagazine, and also wrote for several other campus publications. He is currently a staff writer at "The Atlantic Monthly " magazine.
- James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) in Denver, Colorado is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. From 1961 to 1987 he was a professor of government at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952). He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime (1966), …
- Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch is a gay, Jewish, author, journalist and activist, born 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the "Winston-Salem Journal" in North Carolina, for the "National Journal" magazine, and finally as a freelance writer. Currently a senior writer and biweekly columnist for the "National Journal", a correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly" and "Reason", …
- Randal O'Toole
Randal O'Toole is an American economist and public policy expert. He has held the position of director at the Oregon-based Thoreau Institute since 1975. Since 1995, he has been associated with the Cato Institute as an adjunct scholar. The majority of O'Toole's work has focused on environmental policy, particularly public land use and regional and urban development.
- Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky (31 May1930 - 4 September1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management. A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of two Ukrainian immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Army and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954-55.
- Anthony Downs
Anthony Downs is a noted scholar in public policy and public administration, and since 1977 is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.. Downs has served as a consultant to many of the nation's largest corporations and public officials, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the White House. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the National Commission on Urban Problems in 1967, …
- Paul Pierson
Paul Pierson (born 1959) is an American political scientist, noted for his research on comparative public policy and political economy, the welfare state, and American political development. Pierson is a native of Eugene, Oregon, where both of his parents taught at the University of Oregon. He graduated with a B.A. in political science from Oberlin College in 1981, and then attended graduate school at Yale University, …
- Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook is a professor of public policy, sociology, and economics at Duke University in the United States. His research has focused on firearms and crime, as well as alcohol abuse and related problems. Cook is the author of "Gun Violence: The Real Costs", a book published by Oxford University Press, that presents gun violence from an economic perspective.
- Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod (born 1943) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to coming to Michigan he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1968-74). He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago (1964), and a PhD in political science from Yale University (1969).
- Michael Gallagher
Michael D. Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Information in the United States Department of Commerce and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. He is the chief technology advisor to President George W. Bush. Gallagher was installed into office on October 14, 2003, via a recess appointment, bypassing Senate approval. He has since been approved by the Senate.
- Os Guinness
Os Guinness is a writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia. Born in China during World War II where his parents were medical missionaries, he is the great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the famous Dublin brewer. He started school at a boarding school in China, and remained there until 1951 when the communists forced most foreigners to leave. Since then he has lived mostly in England, Switzerland, and the United States.
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
The Sarah Scaife Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level. From 1985 to 2003 the organization awarded over $235 million USD to other organizations.
- Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann (b. March 13, 1957 in New York City) is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the war on drugs.
- James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman, born May 12, 1926 in Bedford, Indiana, died March 25, 1995 in Chicago, was an American sociologist. He was a sociological theorist, who studied the sociology of education, public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term "social capital". His "Foundations of Social Theory" stands as one of the most important sociological contributions of the late-20th century.
- Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek".
- Roger Noll
Roger G. Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he directs the Program in Regulatory Policy. Noll also is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board at the American Antitrust Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulation. Noll received a B.S. with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.
- Dalton Conley
Dalton Clark Conley (b. 1969) is an American sociologist. He is professor of sociology and public policy at the New York University and adjunct professor of community medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books including "Being Black, Living in the Red" (1999), "Honky" (a sociological memoir; 2001).
- Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic. He will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990-1997. His resignation is effective August 1, 2007. He has held more university presidencies than any other American. Prior to his appointment as Vanderbilt's chancellor on February 7, 2000, Gee was president of Brown University from 1997 to 2000, …
- Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is also a founding editor of the new international journal, "Ethnicities".
- Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards is the current president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She previously founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of more than thirty national organizations. Before that she was deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also worked at the Turner Foundation. She is the daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards.
- Thomas A. Birkland
Thomas A. Birkland (b. 1961) is a political scientist specializing in the study of public policy. Books include "An Introduction to Public Policy" (2001, 2nd ed., 2005), "After Disaster" (1997), and "Lessons of Disaster" (2006). He began his career at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. In 2007 he will become the William Kretzer Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University.
- Theodore J. Lowi
Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research is the American government and public policy. Lowi obtained a BA from Michigan State University in 1954, and an M.A. and PhD from Yale University in 1955 and 1961, respectively. He is a past President of the American Political Science Association and was voted one of the most influential political scholars of the modern era.
- Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917-May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. Cutler graduated from Yale University in 1936 at the age of 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. Three years later, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School.
- Scott Atran
Scott Atran is an American anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1952 and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. While a student he became assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1974 he organized a debate at the Abbaye de Royaumont in France on the nature of universals in human thought and society, with the participation of linguist Noam Chomsky, psychologist Jean Piaget, …
- Colin Talbot
Colin Talbot is Chair of Public Policy and Management at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. Colin has had an unconventional career, leaving school at 16 and working in a variety of jobs before entering Manchester University at 21 to study economics and social sciences in 1974. He never finished his degree after becoming involved in student politics, but returned to Manchester as a professor 29 years later.
- Susan Eaton
Susan Eaton (July 9, 1957-December 30, 2003) was an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, who became a nursing home researcher at Harvard and workers' activist. She wrote about health care management, women's role in union leadership and work-family issues and gender equity in the workplace. She died of leukemia in Boston at age 46.
- Jodi White
Jodi's career combines experience in journalism, politics and government, the private sector and international affairs. As a journalist, she spent six years at the CBC, first as a television news reporter and subsequently as a network radio producer. Jodi was Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Affairs (1984 - 1988) and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (1993).
- Daniel Pauly
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen who completed his high school and university studies in Germany; his doctorate (1979) and habilitation (1985) are in Fisheries Biology, from the University of Kiel.
- David Wilhelm
David Wilhelm (born October 2 1956) is an American political operative and businessman. A native of Appalachian Ohio, Wilhelm is a venture capitalist who focuses on spurring sustainable economic growth in areas that tend not to receive much investment. He received his B.A. from Ohio University, Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and honorary doctorates from Ohio University and the University of Charleston.
- Rainer Knopff
Rainer Knopff is a writer, professor of political science at the University of Calgary, Canada, and member of a group known as the Calgary School. He has gained notoriety for his views about the influence of judicial decisions on Canadian public policy.
- Kevin Price
Kevin Price is a radio host in Houston, Texas. Born December 18, 1961 in Detroit, Michigan, he grew up in the small suburb of Ferndale, Michigan until the age of 13 when he and his family left the state for Texas. This was due to the continued decline of the Detroit economy and because others in his family had moved to Texas. Kevin lived in the small town of Abilene and attended public schools there.
- Rainer Kattel
Rainer Kattel (born 20 March 1974) is an Estonian academic and science administrator; he is an expert on innovation as well as political philosophy. Kattel was born in Tartu, Estonia, and attended the University of Tartu and, for several years, the University of Marburg, Germany, on a DAAD scholarship. He obtained a BA in a specially-designed major, Political Philosophy, an MA in Classics, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration, all with the highest distinction, …
- Andrew Little
Andrew Little is the national secretary of New Zealand’s largest trade union, the EPMU. A position he has held since 2000. He was educated at Taranaki Boys’ High and studied law, philosophy and public policy at Victoria University in Wellington in the 1980s, during which time he was active in the campaign against New Zealands student loan scheme and was elected president of the Victoria University Students’ Association, and later became national student president.
- Bruno Behrend
Bruno Behrend is a conservative talk radio host of the Extreme Wisdom show on WKRS 1220 AM and a conservative activist. He currently runs a database consulting company in River Forest, Illinois. He has previously worked at the Heartland Institute as a public policy analyst and holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Illinois and a law degree from IIT-Kent College of Law. The humorously titled Extreme Wisdom airs 10am to 12pm Monday through Friday.
- Jack A. Cole
Jack A. Cole is the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). He worked for the New Jersey State Police Department for 26 years. For twelve years he worked undercover narcotics where his investigations spanned the spectrum of possible cases, from street drug users and mid-level drug dealers in New Jersey to international "billion-dollar" drug trafficking organizations. Cole holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice and a Masters degree in Public Policy.
- Meir Sheetrit
Meir Sheetrit (born 10 October 1948) is an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and Minister of the Interior. He also served as Acting Justice Minister for three months in 2006. Sheetrit was born in Ksar Souk (now Errachidia), in Morocco, in 1957 his family immigrated to Israel. Sheetrit holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Bar-Ilan University. Sheetrit is married and is a father to two children.
- Ryan Streeter
Ryan Streeter (b. May 26, 1969) is Vice President of Civic Enterprises, a public policy firm in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute. Streeter specializes in public policy and initiatives focused on strengthening communities and addressing social and economic disparities. He has authored <i>Transforming Charity: Toward a Results-Oriented Social Sector</i>; and co-authored <i>The Soul of Civil Society</i>, along with numerous articles.
- John G. McNutt
John G. McNutt is an associate professor of social work at the University of South Carolina, and a leading researcher on the use of information and communication technologies in the nonprofit sector. Much of his current work focuses on electronic advocacy. His books include: *Meenaghan, T., Gibbons, W.G. & McNutt, J.G. (2005). Generalist practice in larger settings. [Second Edition]. Chicago: Lyceum Books. *Meenaghan, T., Kilty, K.M & McNutt, J.G. (2004).
- Michael Welner
Michael Welner, M.D. (born September 24 1964 in Pittsburgh, PA) is one of America’s most highly regarded forensic psychiatrists. He has pioneered several important advances in forensic science, consulted as lead examiner on some of the most critical and complex cases in America in recent years, has written groundbreaking pieces on cutting edge areas of forensic psychiatry and public policy, and has been recognized by various government, law, mental health, …