Christopher DeMuth Sr. is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He was president of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research from 1986–2008; previously he served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, was managing director of Lexecon, Inc. (a law-and-economics consulting firm), was editor and publisher of Regulation magazine, taught at the Kennedy School of Government and directed the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation, and practiced law with Sidley & Austin. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School.