Christopher DeMuth '73 Joins Hudson Institute as a Distinguished Fellow

Christopher DeMuth, '73, will be joining the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization, on January 2, 2012 as a Distinguished Fellow. DeMuth, currently the D. C. Searle Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), will pursue research on government regulation, competition, and law and economics at Hudson Institute.

DeMuth, who led AEI as President from 1986–2008, is widely recognized as a pioneer in the think tank sector, transforming AEI into one of the world's leading policy research organizations.

A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School, DeMuth served in the Reagan administration as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. Previously he was a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he directed the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation. The former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Regulation magazine, DeMuth's articles on regulation and other subjects have appeared in National Affairs, The Public Interest, The Harvard Law Review, The Yale Journal on Regulation, and other publications.