Adam Lerrick Stan Veuger @stanveuger Visiting Scholar Research Fellow Tags: international financial crises, sovereign debt, restructuring, capital Tags: Intersection of economic & political behavior, voter behavior, markets, economic development, World Bank and IMF development & impact of social insurance programs, impact of economic

uncertainty A GUIDE TO THE EXPERTS John Makin (202) 862-5829 [email protected] @AEInews Resident Scholar Alan Viard Fmr. consultant, CBO, US Treasury Department, & IMF Resident Scholar ECONOMIC POLICY fmr. chief economist & principal, Caxton Associates Fmr. Sr. economist, Dallas Fed. Reserve, US Treasury Dept, Council @AEIecon Kevin Hassett Tag: Federal Reserve, monetary policy, tax & budget policy, of Economic Advisers, & Joint Committee on Taxation, US international finance, financial markets, European economy Congress; Taught economics at Ohio State University Senior Fellow, Director of Economic Policy Studies Aparna Mathur Tags: federal tax & budget policy, state tax policy Fmr. Sr. Economist, Federal Reserve, economic adviser Bush, McCain, & Romney campaigns; taught economics & finance at Resident Scholar Peter Wallison Columbia Business School Fmr. consultant, World Bank Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies Tags: US economy, tax & fiscal policy, federal budget Tags: tax policy, labor markets, inequality Fmr. General Counsel, US Treasury Department, & Claude Barfield Stephen D. Oliner White House Counsel to President Reagan; Member, Financial Resident Scholar Resident Scholar Crisis Inquiry Commission (2009) Fmr. consultant, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Fmr. senior adviser, Division of Research & Stats, Fed. Reserve; Tags: Dodd Frank Act, housing bubble, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac & GSEs, Wall Street regulations. Tags: international trade policy, GATT/WTO system Worked on Fed’s analysis of US economy & financial markets Tags: the Federal Reserve, US economy, housing sector Andrew Biggs FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY Resident Scholar Mark Perry @Mark_J_Perry @AEIfdp Fmr. Principal Dep. Commissioner, Social Security Administration Scholar, Univ. of Michigan (Flint) prof. of economics & finance, Danielle Pletka @dpletka Tags: social security, state & local government pensions, public vs. Editor, Carpe Diem econ blog Vice President, Foreign & Defense Policy Studies private sector pay and benefits Tags: U.S. & international economy, financial markets, energy policy Fmr. Sr. Pro. Staff Member, Sen. Committee on Foreign Relations Alex Brill @AlexBrill_DC James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis Tags: Middle East, Iran, & South Asia (Afghanistan, India & Pakistan)

Research Fellow Editor, AEIdeas Leon Aron Fmr. Policy Director & Chief Economist, House Ways & Means Former Reuters economic columnist Resident Scholar & Director of Russian Studies Committee Tags: U.S. economy, U.S. politics Author of Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life & other books on Russia; Tags: fiscal cliff, tax policy, congressional economic issues, US debt Edward (Ed) Pinto writes AEI’s quarterly Russian Outlook Edward Conard Resident Fellow Tags: Russia, US-Russian relations

Visiting Scholar Former exec. VP & chief credit officer for Fannie Mae. Author of Michael Auslin @michaelauslin Author of the New York Times bestselling book, Unintended FHA Watch & ‘How FHA Hurts Working Class Families’ Resident Scholar & Director, Japan Studies Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Tags: mortgage finance, the FHA, US housing Tags: Japan, U.S. - Japanese relations, U.S. - East Asian relations, Asian is Wrong; Formerly at Bain Capital & Wasserstein Perrella & Co. Alex Pollock maritime security Tags: Effect of fiscal policy on innovation Resident Fellow Roger Bate Jeffrey Eisenach Fmr. Pres. & CEO, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago Resident Scholar Visiting Scholar Tags: housing finance, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Banks, Tags: counterfeit pharmaceuticals, performance of aid agencies & NGOs, Adjunct prof. - George Mason School of Law (regulated industries) corporate governance, banking, accounting standards environmental regulations & health policy in developing world Frmr Federal Trade Commission & OMB official Nick Schulz @nickschulz Tags: information technology sector, telecom policy, the Internet Dan Blumenthal Editor-in-Chief, American.com; DeWitt Wallace Fellow Resident Fellow R. Richard Geddes Tags: politics & tech, political econ, media, entrepreneurship, economics Fmr. Commissioner & fmr. Vice Chairman, US-China Economic & Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor - Cornell University Sita Nataraj Slavov Security Review, fmr. country dir., China/Taiwan, US Dept. of Tags: transport & infrastructure, postal service reform Resident Scholar Defense Aspen Gorry Tags: China, Taiwan, East Asia, US – China relations, Former economics professor, Occidental College Research Fellow Tags: social security, retirement issues, economics of aging, taxes John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton Former economics professor at Univ of California, Santa Cruz Vincent Smith Senior Fellow Tags: jobs, youth unemployment, persistence in unemployment, Visiting Scholar, Prof. of Ag. Economics, Montana State University Fmr. U.S. Perm. Rep. to the UN; fmr. Under Secretary of State for tax/fiscal policy & labor markets issues Tags: agriculture, crop insurance, farm subsidies Arms Control & International Security; Fmr. Asst. Attorney Gen’l - US Dept. of Justice Matthew Jensen Michael Strain @michaelrstrain Economic Researcher Tags: UN, nuclear proliferation &WMDs, Iran & N. Korea, Israel Research Fellow Tags: tax policy, US economy Tags: labor & education economics Sadanand Dhume @dhume01 Resident Fellow, columnist WSJ.com Desmond Lachman Phillip Swagel @pswagel Resident Fellow Former India bureau chief & Indonesia correspondent, Far Eastern Visiting Scholar Fmr. Managing Dir., Salomon Smith Barney, Economic Review Fmr. Asst. Sec. for Economic Policy, US Treasury Dept. fmr. Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tags: South Asian security/political economy/business, radical Islam in Tags: US economy, financial markets reform, taxes, international trade South/Southeast Asia, India & Pakistan Tags: Eurozone crisis, IMF policy, financial crisis

Thomas Donnelly Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen POLITICS AND PUBLIC OPINION

Co-Director, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies Fellow Fmr. Policy Group Director & Professional Staff Member, House Fmr. chief speechwriter, White House & US Dept. of Defense Karlyn Bowman Armed Services Committee Tags: CIA interrogations, American presidential leadership, combating Senior Fellow Tags: military readiness, military personnel, defense strategy, defense terrorism Tags: US politics, public opinion (polls), think tanks industrial base, defense budget Paul Wolfowitz @Paulwolfowitz Michael Barone @MichaelBarone Mackenzie Eaglen @MEaglen Scholar Resident Fellow Resident Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies Fmr. Deputy Secretary of Defense, fmr. US Ambassador to Principal coauthor, Almanac of American Politics Fmr. principal defense adviser, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Indonesia, fmr. President, World Bank Group Tags: US campaigns & elections, US political system, Congress fmr. Presidential Management Fellow, US Dept. of Defense Tags: US role in the world, national security issues, Libya, Syria, Jonah Goldberg @JonahNRO Tags: military readiness, military personnel, defense strategy, defense development issues, Africa. Fellow industrial base, defense budget, sequestration John Yoo Editor-at-large, National Review Online Nicholas Eberstadt Visiting Scholar Tags: US politics/ culture, Conservative & Progressive movement, media Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy Former Deputy Asst. Attorney General, US Dept. of Justice Tags: Terrorism & law, sovereignty, internat’l law, Constitutional law Henry Olsen Commissioner, Key National Indicators Council; Senior Adviser, Nat’l Bureau of Asian Research; Fmr. consultant: World Bank, US Vice Pres. & Director, National Research Initiative Maseh Zarif Tags: Long-term political trends, US politics & elections State Dept., USAID, &US Census Bureau Critical Threats Researcher Author: Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic Tags: Iranian nuclear program Norman Ornstein Tags: Demographics, Entitlements, poverty, North/South Korea, global Resident Scholar health economic development policy HEALTH POLICY Fmr. co-director, Election Reform Project

Frederick Kagan Tags: Congress, US politics, elections, continuity of government

Christopher DeMuth Chair & Dir., Critical Threats Project Joseph Antos @joeantos Fmr. military history prof. at West Point; Author of 2007 Choosing Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care & Retirement Policy EDUCATION POLICY Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq (one of the intellectual architects Fmr. Asst. Dir., Congressional Budget Office, & fmr. @AEIeducation of the surge) Commissioner, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Comm. Frederick (Rick) Hess Tags: defense/national security issues, American military, Afghanistan & Tags: Medicare, private health insurance, health care policy Resident Scholar, Director, Education Policy Studies Iraq, Al Qaeda/terrorism James (Jim) Capretta Tags: K-12 & higher education, school reform, education spending

Phillip Lohaus Visiting Scholar Andrew Kelly Research Fellow, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies Fmr. Associate Dir., Human Resources Programs, Office of Research Fellow, Jacobs Associate Frmr US Dept of Defense analyst Management & Budget Tags: higher education, graduation rates, funding of education Tags: US & foreign intelligence, military modernization, Middle East & Tags: health care policy & market-based alternatives to the Affordable South Asian insurgencies Care Act Michael McShane Research Fellow Ahmad Majidyar @majidyar Scott Gottlieb, M.D. @ScottGottliebMD Tags: K-12 education, private & religious schools, federal education Senior Research Associate Resident Fellow policy, school choice Instructs senior US Army & Marine officers about Afghanistan Working hospitalist & Clinical Asst. Prof., NYU School of Medicine Tags: Afghanistan, rise of terrorism/religious extremism in Pakistan, Fmr. Sr. Adviser, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services & fmr. SOCIETY AND CULTURE Iran’s foreign policy Sr. Adviser & Deputy Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration

Michael Mazza Tags: political/clinical trends in medicine, medical technology Arthur Brooks @ArthurBrooks development, Food & Drug Administration policies, Center for Medicare Research Fellow President & Medicaid Services policies Tags: free enterprise, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, American Tags: China & Taiwan, Chinese military, US-Asia-Pacific defense policy culture, politics, economic life Thomas Miller Roger Noriega Resident Fellow Fellow Timothy (Tim) P. Carney Fmr. Sr. Health Economist, Joint Economic Committee in Congress Fmr. Asst. Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Visiting Fellow & Senior Political Columnist, Washington Examiner Tags: health exchanges, market-based alternatives to ObamaCare, Fmr. US Ambassador to the OAS Tags: Reinvigorating a competitive culture to foster a fair economy information transparency & value-based measurement for health care Tags: Latin America, Canada & the Caribbean Charles Murray @charlesmurray services, health insurance regulation W.H. Brady Scholar Michael Rubin @mrubin1971 Sally Satel, MD Resident Scholar Tags: US social structure, family & social mores, Libertarianism, human Resident Scholar intelligence, culture, crime, poverty Fmr. Staff Adviser, Iran & Iraq, US Dept. of Defense Tags: mental health policy (including PTSD & psychological impact of Tags: Iran & Syria; Middle East regional politics; Turkey, the Kurds, & war/disasters), transplant policy, political trends in medicine, domestic Ramesh Ponnuru the Persian Gulf. Visiting Fellow, drug policy

Senior Editor, National Review & columnist, Bloomberg View Gary Schmitt Tags: Future of conservatism, constitutionalism, & conservatism and Resident Scholar, Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Media Contact economic/health care policy Security Studies, Director of Program on American Citizenship (202) 862-5829 Fmr. minority staff director, Senate Intelligence Committee Christina Hoff Sommers [email protected] Tags: FISA, defense strategy, sequestration, intelligence, citizenship Resident Scholar

Tags: feminism & US culture, war against boys, women and science