Speaker biographies
David Frum is a resident fellow at AEI. A former special assistant to President George W. Bush for economic speechwriting (2001–2002), Mr. Frum’s last two books—The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (Random House, 2003) and An End To Evil: How to Win the War on Terror (with Richard Perle; Random House, 2003)—were New York Times bestsellers. He is also a contributing editor to National Review, and he writes a blog for National Review Online. In his latest book, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (Doubleday, 2008), Mr. Frum analyzes why a generation of young people has turned its back on the Republican Party; why Republicans can no longer win elections on taxes, guns, and promises to restore traditional values; and what new approaches are needed to regain lost ground.
Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C. that examines the impact of immigration on the United States. The center is animated by a proimmigrant, low-immigration vision that seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted. Before joining the center in February 1995, Mr. Krikorian held a variety of editorial and writing positions. He frequently testifies before Congress; has published articles in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and elsewhere; is a contributor at National Review Online; and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, National Public Radio, and many other television and radio programs.
Jason Richwine is a National Research Initiative fellow at AEI and is currently completing a dissertation on immigration and IQ at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His general research interest is in applying the science of mental ability to better inform public policy on a variety of issues, including immigration, race relations, education, and welfare. Mr. Richwine will stay on as a research fellow at AEI after completing his degree in the fall.
Fred Siegel is the author most recently of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life (Encounter Books, 2005), which received the cover review in The New York Times Book Review. His previous book, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities (Encounter Books, 2000), was named by Peter Jennings as one of the one hundred most important books about the United States in the twentieth century. Mr. Siegel, who has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has taught at the Sorbonne, is also a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been a professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City for the last twenty-five years. The former editor of the City Journal, he has written for The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Public Interest, Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Dissent, The Weekly Standard, the Washington Post’s Outlook section, and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as numerous academic publications. Mr. Siegel, who was a senior adviser to Rudy Giuliani’s 1993 mayoral campaign and wrote the candidate’s pathbreaking quality of life speech, gave a 2000 Bradley Lecture at AEI on “The City and Its Successors.”
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