New Chair
With the generous support of board member Jim Kilts, Cato has established the Kilts Family Chair in Fiscal Studies. The new position will be held by Chris Edwards, a Cato tax and budget scholar who previously served as a senior economist for the congressional Joint Economic Committee.

Budget and Entitlements
Romina Boccia is joining Cato as the new director of budget and entitlement policy, overseeing research on areas that include budget deficits, runaway spending, and Social Security reform.

Defense and Foreign Policy
Justin Logan—a long-tenured Cato-ite and one of the nation’s leading advocates of restraint in the foreign policy community—has been named Cato’s new director of defense and foreign policy studies. In his new role, he will oversee all of Cato’s work on such issues as America’s bloated military spending and the case for restraint in U.S. foreign policy.