Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., Getting America Right, March 19, 2007

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.

Getting America Right
March 19, 2007

http://www.gettingamericaright.com/Authors.cfm

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. is the President of The Heritage Foundation, Washington's leading public policy organization or think tank. On January 18, 1989 President Reagan conferred the Presidential Citizens Medal on him as "a leader of the conservative movement." The citation continues: "By building an organization dedicated to ideas and their consequences, he has helped to shape the policy of our Government. His has been a voice of reason and values in service to his country and the cause of freedom around the world." President George W. Bush said of Feulner: "In Washington Presidents come and go. But not at The Heritage Foundation." (November 11, 2003)

Feulner also serves as Treasurer and Trustee of The Mont Pelerin Society; Chairman of the Board of The Intercollegiate Studies Institute; member of the Board of the National Chamber Foundation; and a member of the Board of Trustees of Regis University. He is past president of various organizations including The Philadelphia Society and the Mont Pelerin Society, and past Director of Sequoia Bank, George Mason University, the Acton Institute, the American Council on Germany, the International Republican Institute and the Council for National Policy.

Dr. Feulner has studied at the University of Edinburgh (Ph.D.-Founding President, American Friends of the University, "Benefactor of the University" (2006)), the London School of Economics (Richard M. Weaver Fellow), the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA-Recipient, Joseph Wharton Award), Georgetown University, and Regis University (B.S.-Distinguished Alumnus Award). He has received honorary degrees from Thomas More College, Hillsdale College, Pepperdine University, Nichols College, Grove City College, Bellevue College, Gonzaga University, Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), St. Norbert College, and Hanyang University (Korea). He has been decorated by the Governments of the Republic of Korea (2003) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1992).

Feulner served on the Gingrich-Mitchell Congressional Task Force on UN Reform (2005) and the Congressional Commission on International Financial Institutions ("Meltzer Commission," 1999-2000). He was the Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform ("Kemp Commission," 1995-1996), Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982-91), a Consultant for Domestic Policy to President Reagan, and an advisor to several government departments and agencies. He was a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellows (1981-83), of the Secretary of State's UNESCO Review Observation Panel (1985-89), and of the Carlucci Commission on Foreign Aid (1983).

Dr. Feulner served as the Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as the Confidential Assistant to Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, as Administrative Assistant to U.S. Congressman Philip M. Crane (R-Illinois), as Counsellor to Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp (1996) and as a Public Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He is the author of six books: Getting America Right(2006), The March of Freedom (1998 and 2004), Leadership for America (2000), Intellectual Pilgrims (1999), Conservatives Stalk The House (1983), and Looking Back (1981). He is the editor of U.S. – Japan Mutual Security<: The Next Twenty Years, China – The Turning Point/em>, the 2004 Index of Economic Freedom, and a contributor to ten other books and numerous journals, reviews and magazines. He was the Publisher of Policy Review (1977-2001), and articles by him have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers. His biweekly syndicated column appears in hundreds of newspapers.

In the summer of 1982, he served as a United States Representative to the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament (with the rank of Ambassador) where he delivered the final United States address to the General Assembly. During the transition from the Carter Administration to the Reagan Administration, Feulner served on the Executive Committee of the Presidential Transition. He remains involved in various aspects of foreign policy, particularly public diplomacy, international communications issues and international economic policy. He has served on the United States delegations to several meetings of the IMF/World Bank group.

On a personal note, he is married to Linda Claire Leventhal. The Feulners have two married children, Edwin J. Feulner III, and Emily Lown, and one granddaughter, Elizabeth Jane Feulner. The Feulners live in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Feulner is listed in standard reference works including the current edition of Who's Who in America.