Founded 1943 as "a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare."
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David Abshire |
Diplomat |
11-Apr-1926 |
31-Oct-2014 |
US Ambassador to NATO, 1983-87 |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Activist |
13-Nov-1969 |
|
Submission |
| Anne Applebaum |
Author |
25-Jul-1964 |
|
Gulag: A History |
| Bradford Berenson |
Attorney |
c. 1964 |
|
Partner, Sidley Austin |
| John Bolton |
Government |
20-Nov-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2005-06 |
| Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
19-Dec-2012 |
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Arthur C. Brooks |
Author |
21-May-1964 |
|
Gross National Happiness |
| Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
| Willard C. Butcher |
Business |
25-Oct-1926 |
25-Aug-2012 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1980-91 |
| Liz Cheney |
Relative |
28-Jul-1966 |
|
Dick Cheney's daughter |
| Lynne Cheney |
First Lady |
14-Aug-1941 |
|
Wife of US Vice President Dick Cheney |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
c. 1955 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Barber Conable |
Politician |
2-Nov-1922 |
30-Nov-2003 |
World Bank President, Congressman |
| Harlan Crow |
Business |
1950 |
|
Chairman and CEO, Crow Holdings |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
Author |
25-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservative author |
| John Charles Daly |
Game Show Host |
20-Feb-1914 |
24-Feb-1991 |
Host of What's My Line? |
| Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
| Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Anthony R. Dolan |
Government |
7-Jul-1948 |
|
President Reagan's chief speechwriter |
| Ken Duberstein |
Government |
21-Apr-1944 |
|
Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89 |
| Jon Entine |
Author |
30-Apr-1952 |
|
Taboo |
| John V. Faraci |
Business |
16-Feb-1950 |
|
CEO of International Paper |
| Bruce Fein |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Reagan lawyer |
| William J. Fellner |
Economist |
31-May-1905 |
15-Sep-1983 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| Tully M. Friedman |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
| David Frum |
Pundit |
30-Jun-1960 |
|
Coined "Axis of Evil" |
| Michael Fumento |
Author |
4-Jan-1960 |
|
Conservative science writer |
| Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth |
Government |
1957 |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1997-2001 |
| Gay Hart Gaines |
Administrator |
11-Feb-1938 |
|
Chairman of GOPAC, 1993-97 |
| Christopher B. Galvin |
Business |
21-Mar-1950 |
|
CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003 |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht |
Government |
? |
|
PNAC Middle East Initiative |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Raymond V. Gilmartin |
Business |
6-Mar-1941 |
|
CEO of Merck, 1994-2005 |
| Newt Gingrich |
Politician |
17-Jun-1943 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1995-99 |
| James Glassman |
Publisher |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Roll Call editor |
| Jonah Goldberg |
Columnist |
21-Mar-1969 |
|
National Review Online |
| Jack Goldsmith |
Government |
26-Sep-1962 |
|
The Terror Presidency |
| Harvey Golub |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of American Express, 1993-2001 |
| C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
| Kenneth P. Green |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Environmental analyst, AEI |
| Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
| Robert P. Griffin |
Politician |
6-Nov-1923 |
16-Apr-2015 |
US Senator from Michigan, 1966-79 |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Philip C. Habib |
Diplomat |
25-Feb-1920 |
24-May-1992 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74 |
| Reno L. Harnish |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, 2003-06 |
| Steven Hayward |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Conservative environmentalism pundit |
| Roger Hertog |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Reinvented The New York Sun |
| Carla Hills |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1934 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1989-93 |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
| Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
| Bruce Jackson |
Government |
? |
|
Project on Transitional Democracies |
| Frederick Kagan |
Scholar |
c. 1969 |
|
Neocon military historian, now at AEI |
| Alan Keyes |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1950 |
|
Illinois carpetbagger |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick |
Government |
19-Nov-1926 |
7-Dec-2006 |
Reagan's UN Ambassador |
| Herbert G. Klein |
Journalist |
1-Apr-1918 |
2-Jul-2009 |
White House Communications Director, 1969-73 |
| Martin M. Koffel |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of URS |
| Lawrence J. Korb |
Author |
9-Jul-1939 |
|
The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Bruce Kovner |
Activist |
Feb-1945 |
|
Caxton Associates billionaire |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
22-Jan-1920 |
18-Sep-2009 |
Influential neocon |
| Randall S. Kroszner |
Economist |
22-Jun-1962 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Michael Ledeen |
Government |
1-Aug-1941 |
|
Neoconservative activist |
| Lew Lehrman |
Business |
15-Aug-1938 |
|
Rite Aid drugstore founder |
| Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
| S. Robert Lichter |
Scholar |
28-Aug-1948 |
|
Center for Media and Public Affairs |
| Larry Lindsey |
Economist |
18-Jul-1954 |
|
Masterminded GWB's tax cut |
| Marc S. Lipschultz |
Business |
c. 1971 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
| John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
| John A. Luke, Jr. |
Business |
24-Nov-1948 |
|
CEO of MeadWestvaco |
| Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
| Alex J. Mandl |
Business |
14-Dec-1943 |
|
President and COO of AT&T, 1994-96 |
| Jerry L. Martin |
Educator |
? |
|
American Council of Trustees & Alumni |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| Richard T. McCormack |
Diplomat |
6-Mar-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to the OAS, 1985-89 |
| Paul W. McCracken |
Economist |
29-Dec-1915 |
3-Aug-2012 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Charles Murray |
Author |
1943 |
|
The Bell Curve |
| Richard John Neuhaus |
Religion |
14-May-1936 |
8-Jan-2009 |
Catholic priest |
| Robert A. Nisbet |
Sociologist |
30-Sep-1913 |
9-Sep-1996 |
The Sociological Tradition |
| Roger F. Noriega |
Diplomat |
22-May-1959 |
|
US Ambassador to OAS, 2001-03 |
| Grover Norquist |
Activist |
19-Oct-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader |
| Michael Novak |
Religion |
9-Sep-1933 |
|
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism |
| Norman Ornstein |
Author |
14-Oct-1948 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Richard Perle |
Government |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
Prince of Darkness |
| Danielle Pletka |
Pundit |
12-Jun-1963 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Lee Raymond |
Business |
13-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of ExxonMobil, 1999-2005 |
| Joe Ricketts |
Business |
16-Jul-1941 |
|
Founder of Ameritrade |
| George R. Roberts |
Business |
1944 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
| John F. W. Rogers |
Business |
15-Apr-1956 |
|
Chief of Staff, Goldman Sachs |
| Kevin Rollins |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Dell Computer, 2004-07 |
| Edward B. Rust, Jr. |
Business |
3-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of State Farm Insurance |
| Hal Saunders |
Government |
27-Dec-1930 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East, 1978-81 |
| Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
4-Jul-2014 |
The Republican George Soros |
| Antonin Scalia |
Judge |
11-Mar-1936 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Bill Schneider |
Pundit |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
CNN senior political analyst |
| William J. Sebald |
Diplomat |
5-Nov-1901 |
Aug-1980 |
Chief US FSO in Japan, 1947-52 |
| Gary L. Seevers |
Economist |
c. 1938 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| Mel Sembler |
Diplomat |
10-May-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Italy, 2001-05 |
| George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
| Laurence H. Silberman |
Judge |
12-Oct-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1975-77 |
| Martin Silverstein |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 2001-05 |
| John Snow |
Government |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2003-06 |
| Christina Hoff Sommers |
Author |
1950 |
|
Who Stole Feminism? |
| William S. Stavropoulos |
Business |
12-May-1939 |
|
Twice CEO of Dow Chemical |
| Herbert Stein |
Economist |
27-Aug-1916 |
8-Sep-1999 |
Economic adviser for Nixon |
| Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
| Bill Thomas |
Politician |
6-Dec-1941 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-2007 |
| Fred Thompson |
Actor |
19-Aug-1942 |
1-Nov-2015 |
Actor turned Senator from Tennessee |
| Peter J. Wallison |
Government |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
White House Counsel, 1986-87 |
| Marilyn Ware |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland, 2006-08 |
| Ben Wattenberg |
Pundit |
26-Aug-1933 |
28-Jun-2015 |
Think Tank moderator |
| Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
10-Feb-1927 |
20-Mar-2014 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
| Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
| John Yoo |
Government |
10-Jun-1967 |
|
Thinks Geneva Conventions are obsolete |
| Karl Zinsmeister |
Government |
1959 |
|
Bush domestic policy advisor |
