Highlights
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In 1989, when President Reagan awarded Edwin Feulner the Presidential Citizens Medal for being the "leader of the conservative movement," there was little to dispute. As president and cofounder (with Paul Weyrich) of the Heritage Foundation, Feulner has played a central role in shaping and pushing the conservative agenda for more than three decades.
Feulner also helped turn the traditional notion of think tanks as drab centers of serious scholarship on its head. From its very first days, Heritage has been devoted to turning its ideologically driven agenda into policy. In fact, it is more accurately described as an advocacy organization. It spends a massive portion of its budget on marketing, pioneered the use of succinct messaging, and aims to influence the policy-making community directly (without, of course, overstepping its limits as a 501(c)(3) organization). As Feulner is fond of saying, "We conduct warfare in the battle of ideas."
Feulner's books include Leadership for America, 2000; Intellectual Pilgrims, 1999; The March of Freedom, 1998; Conservatives Stalk The House, 1983; and Looking Back, 1981.
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Institutional
Affiliations
Heritage Foundation: President and founder (1)
The Mont Pelerin Society: Treasurer and Trustee (1)
George Mason University: Member, Board of Visitors (1)
Acton Institute: Trustee (1)
International Republican Institute: Trustee (1)
Hoover Institution: Former Fellow (1)
Center for Strategic and International Studies: Former fellow (1)
High Frontier: Underwrote, through Heritage Foundation, High Frontier's first study advocating a ballistic-missile defense system in the early 1980s (4)
Government
Service
Congressional Commission on International Financial Institutions (Meltzer Commission): Member, 1999-2000 (1)
National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform (Kemp Commission): Vice Chairman, 1995-1996 (1)
U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy: Chairman, 1982-1991 (1)
Reagan Administration: Consultant to the President for Domestic Policy (1)
President's Commission on White House Fellows: Member, 1981-1983 (1)
Secretary of State's UNESCO Review Observation Panel: Member, 1985-1989 (1)
Carlucci Commission on Foreign Aid: Member, 1983 (1)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Sequoia National Bank: Former Director (2)
Peregrine Control Technologies: Former Director (5)
Education
University of Edinburgh: Ph.D. (1)
The London School of Economics: Richard M. Weaver Fellow (1)
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: M.BA. (1)
Regis University: B.Sc. (1)
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