Speaker biographies

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI. He also is an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Antos’s research focuses on the economics of health policy, including Medicare reform, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. He is the editor, with Alice Rivlin, of Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge. Before joining AEI, Antos was assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies at AEI. Between 1975 and 1979, he was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. He has written or edited over a dozen books, including Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform; Legal Services for the Poor: Time for Reform; The Vulnerable Social Worker: Liability for Serving Children and Families; and Juvenile Justice Advocacy: Practice in a Unique Court. He has written over 250 articles and has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.

Karlyn Bowman is a senior fellow at AEI. She studies public opinion, polls, and U.S. politics. 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. In 2002, she inaugurated AEI’s Public Opinion Studies, which include “America after 9/11” and “Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Gay Marriage,” and are available on AEI’s website. Her most recent public opinion studies include “Voting by Key Groups in Presidential and House Elections, 1952-2006” and “Women’s Attitudes: Some Poll-Based Observations.” 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 (Grove Press, 2005).

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