April 20, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Prior to becoming president in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada. Pipes address national and international audiences on health care, women's issues, education, privatization, civil rights, and the economy. She serves on the national advisory board of Capital Research Center, the board of advisers of the San Francisco Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, and the State Policy Network president’s advisory council. She was a member of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team in 2003. Pipes has been interviewed on CNNfn, 20/20, Fox News, The Today Show, Dateline, Politically Incorrect, The Dennis Miller Show, and other prominent programs. She has written regular columns for Chief Executive, Investor's Business Daily, and the San Francisco Examiner. Most recently, she is the author of Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health-Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer (Pacific Research Institute, 2004).
Steven F. Hayward is the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco. He writes frequently on a wide range of current topics, including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy for publications including National Review, Reason, The Weekly Standard, and Policy Review. His newspaper articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other daily newspapers. He is the author the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released each year on Earth Day. His latest book is The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, the first of two volumes about Reagan and his effect on American political life.
Roger Bate is a resident fellow at AEI. Before coming to AEI, Bate was director of the International Policy Network from 2001 to 2003, director of the Environmental Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 2003, and director of the European Science and Environment Forum from 1995 to 2001. Bate researches water policy in developing countries; health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries, focusing particularly on AIDS and malaria; international environmental and health agreements, specifically concerning industrial chemicals, climate change, and water; the role of aid agencies and NGOs in developing countries; and genetically modified organisms and pesticide policy in developing countries. He has written numerous articles and opinion pieces, as well as several books, including Saving Our Streams: The Role of the Anglers Conservation Association in Preventing Pollution in English and Welsh Rivers (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); Malaria and the DDT Story (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); and Life's Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000).
Karlyn H. Bowman is a resident fellow at AEI. She joined the Institute in 1979 and was managing editor of Public Opinion magazine until 1990. From 1990 to 1995, she was the editor of The American Enterprise, the Institute's flagship magazine. Today she continues to work on the magazine as editor of its public opinion section. In 2002, she inaugurated a series of Public Opinion Studies that are available on AEI's website, which include "America after 9/11" and "Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Gay Marriage." She contributed a chapter on polling to The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI-Brookings, 2001), and is a contributing author to The Neocon Reader.
Samuel Thernstrom is the managing editor of the AEI Press and director of the W.H. Brady Program in Culture and Freedom. Formerly he served as director of communications at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (2001–03), speechwriter to Governor George E. Pataki, and as a spokesman for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Ted Gayer is a visiting scholar at AEI, having previously served as a senior economist on the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. At AEI, he researches environmental policy and government regulation of health and safety risks. He has also researched education policy and the history of economics. His work has been published in many economic journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and Regulation. He has recently co-edited (with W. Kip Viscusi) the two-volume Classics in Risk Management.
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