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Cato Policy Report, September/October 1995

Cato Names New Staff, Adjunct Scholars

Leanne J. Abdnor has been promoted to Cato's vice president for external affairs, with responsibility for development and legislative liaison. She had been director of external affairs since January and has 14 years experience as a business lobbyist in Washington. Robert N. Borens, named director of corporate relations, will devote full time to Cato's growing corporate support. As assistant to the president, Nicole Gray will be the primary liaison with Cato Sponsors.

Peggy J. Ellis has been named director of government relations. She previously served as a policy council director at the National Policy Forum.

The Cato Institute has also named six new adjunct scholars: Jarett B. Decker, a criminal defense attorney in Minnesota who has written on the congressional crime bill for Cato (Policy Analysis no. 229, "The 1995 Crime Bills: Is the GOP the Party of Liberty and Limited Government?"); Catherine England, a George Mason University economist specializing in the financial services industry and formerly Cato's director of regulatory studies; Richard L. Gordon, a professor of mineral economics at Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Michaels, an economist at California State University, Fullerton; Randal O'Toole, a public-lands expert at the Thoreau Institute; and David Schoenbrod, a professor at New York Law School.

Adjunct scholars Jonathan Clarke, a former British diplomat, and Stanley H. Kober, an author in Arlington, Virginia, were named research fellows in foreign policy studies.

This article originally appeared in the September/October 1995 edition of Cato Policy Report.