# Cato News Notes 

May/​June 2023 • Policy Report 

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**New Directors** 
Max Hyman, who has worked in the Senate for nearly nine years, and Lawrence Montreuil, a former legislative director at the American Legion, are new directors of government affairs.

**New Roles** 
Beginning in April 2023, Scott Lincicome is Cato’s new vice president of general economics, in addition to his role as director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Alex Nowrasteh is the vice president of economic and social policy studies.

**Sphere on Campus** 
Cato’s Sphere project hosted a two-day event at West Virginia University titled “The Beauty of Experimentation: Society, Civic Culture, and Your Classroom.” Featured speakers included Nadine Strossen and Deirdre McCloskey.

**New Orleans Book Festival** 
When discussing who would participate in the New Orleans Book Festival, cochair Walter Isaacson said on MSNBC’s *Morning Joe*, “In this country we don’t get a good diversity of opinion sometimes; I think the Cato Institute has been helping us to get a more libertarian view so that students at Tulane \[where the festival is being held\] and the New Orleans community can, in a civil way, listen to all sides of discussions.”

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