Prior to joining Cato, Michel served as deputy staff director at the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, where he helped lead Senator Mike Lee’s (R‑UT) Social Capital Project and managed the committee’s economic research. He has worked as a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation and as the program manager for the Spending and Budget Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Michel holds a PhD in economics from George Mason University and a BA in politics from Whitman College. His commentary appears in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg Tax, and his scholarly work is published in Public Budgeting & Finance, Tax Notes, and several edited volumes.
