FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Peggy DeAngelo, Chief of Staff; Evan Bolick, General Counsel; Marissa Delgado, Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer; Norbert Michel, Vice President and Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives; Emily Ekins, Vice President for Policy and Society; Peter Goettler, President and CEO; Alex Nowrasteh, Senior Vice President for Policy; Harrison Moar, Senior Vice President for Marketing and Partnerships; Linda Ah-Sue, Vice President, Events and Conferences; Clark Neily, Senior Vice President, Legal Studies; Scott Lincicome, Vice President, General Economics and Stiefel Trade Policy Center; Lawrence Montreuil, Vice President for Public Affairs. NOT PICTURED: Steve Kurtz, Vice President and Chief Data and AI Officer; Ian Vásquez, Vice President for International Studies, Director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and David Boaz Chair.

Ideas do not change policy on their own; people do.

At Cato, our mission is our guiding mandate and a commitment shared by the people who work here. That alignment between personal conviction and institutional purpose is one of Cato’s most durable advantages.

And the force of Cato’s mission relies on the talent of our team. Every person here brings unique expertise and experience, driven by an insistence on rigorous scholarship, adherence to principle, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and civility.

This diversity of approach and unity of purpose is a compounding strength, enabling us to be both principled and impactful, whether we are pushing public policy forward or pushing back against the growth of government.

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Expanding Our Scholarly Depth

Cato’s leadership, featured here, embodies that strength. They represent what Cato looks like when it lives up to its standards and remains grounded in its principles. They are joined by a growing team of scholars across a range of critical policy areas, made possible by the support of our Partners through the Vision for Liberty Campaign.

  • Matthew Cavedon, promoted to Director of Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice
  • Ryan Chan-Wei, Research Fellow at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives
  • Marcos Falcone, Policy Analyst focused on Latin America at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
  • Kevin T. Frazier, Adjunct Research Fellow in Technology Policy
  • Benjamin Giltner, promoted from Research Associate to a Policy Analyst focused on issues related to US military strategy and foreign policy
  • Dan Greenberg, Senior Legal Fellow
  • Adam Omary, Research Fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, studying the psychology of human progress
  • Stephen Richer, Adjunct Scholar with Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
  • Evan Sankey, Policy Analyst focused on US policy toward China
  • Solveig Singleton, Policy Analyst focused on consumer finance issues
  • Katherine Thompson, Senior Fellow in defense and foreign policy studies

Securing this level of expertise remains one of our most significant challenges, particularly when seeking specialized professionals that our traditional hiring networks do not typically produce.

Building for the Long Game

Cato’s work demands a long view and resilience through the inevitable shifts in the public policy environment. This endurance requires exceptional people: policy experts in evolving fields, mission-driven creatives, principled innovators.

In addition to investing deeply in the development of our current staff, as we look to Cato’s next 50 years, we are prioritizing sustainable access to top-tier talent.

We are restructuring our educational programs into a deliberate pipeline that identifies promising individuals early, develops them over time, and stewards those relationships as they enter leadership positions.

Our goal is to ensure that Cato always has the next generation of aligned, capable people in view before we need them—and, in doing so, to cultivate a wider network of future leaders in policy, media, government, and business.