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Immigration:

  • Alex Nowrasteh, Senior Vice President for Policy
  • David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies, The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy

Education:

Foreign Policy:

Energy & Environment:

  • Travis Fisher, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy Studies

Trade:

  • Scott Lincicome, Vice President of General Economics and Stiefel Trade Policy Center
  • Colin Grabow, Associate Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies

Economy:

  • Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics
  • Tad DeHaven, Policy Analyst on Federal and State Economic and Fiscal Policy Issues
  • Adam Michel, Director of Tax Policy Studies 

Monetary Policy:

  • Norbert Michel, Vice President and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives
  • Nick Anthony, Policy Analyst with the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives

Technology:

Healthcare:

Global Liberty & Prosperity:

  • Ian Vásquez, Vice President for International Studies, Director of the Center for Global Liberty & Prosperity, David Boaz Chair
  • Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
  • Johan Norberg, Senior Fellow

Constitutional law:

  • Thomas Berry, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
  • Clark Neily, Senior Vice President for Legal Studies
  • Walter Olson, Senior Fellow with the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies

Welfare & Entitlement Programs: