April 5, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Christopher DeMuth has been the president of AEI since 1986. He was previously the managing director of Lexecon Inc.; administrator for regulatory affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; lecturer and director of regulatory studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and an attorney with the Consolidated Rail Corporation and the law firm of Sidley & Austin. In addition, Mr. DeMuth is the chairman of two family businesses. His articles on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at AEI and executive editor of Education Next. His books include Common Sense School Reform (2004), A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom (2004), Revolution at the Margins (2002), Spinning Wheels (1998), School Choice in the Real World (2001), and Bringing the Social Sciences Alive (1999). Mr. Hess is a faculty associate of the Harvard University Program in Education Policy and Governance and currently serves on the Review Board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hess was a professor of education and politics at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute.

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