November 10, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Christopher DeMuth has been president of the American Enterprise Institute since 1986. He was previously a practicing lawyer, a consulting economist, a teacher at the Kennedy School of Government, and a White House official in the Reagan and Nixon administrations. His essays have appeared in The American Enterprise, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, and the Harvard Law Review.

Charles Krauthammer is an essayist and syndicated columnist.  His Washington Post column appears in more than 130 newspapers worldwide.  He writes a monthly essay for Time magazine and contributes frequently to The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The National Interest, and other journals.  His columns have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary; his essays, the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.  He is the recipient of the Bradley Prize for promotion of liberal democracy and American institutions, and the American Enterprise Institute's highest honor, the Irving Kristol Award.

Natan Sharansky has served in four Israeli cabinets, including as deputy prime minister, minister of industry and trade, and minister of housing and construction. Born in the Ukraine, Mr. Sharansky was educated at the Physical Technical Institute in Moscow and became a prominent Soviet dissident in the years following the Helsinki Accords of 1975. Arrested and imprisoned in 1977, he was freed in 1986 and allowed to emigrate to Israel. He is the author of the prison memoir, Fear No Evil (Random House, 1988).

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