Speaker Biographies 

Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI and a member of Harvard University's Center for Population and Development Studies. He is also on the Board of Advisers of the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Statistical Assessment Service and is a member of the Environmental Literacy Council. He frequently serves as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau and other government organizations on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over 200 studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems; The End of North Korea; The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule; Korea Approaches Reunification; and, most recently, Korea's Future and the Great Powers.

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the house, is a senior fellow at AEI and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is also the chief executive officer of the Gingrich Group, an Atlanta-based consulting firm. He has served as a member of the secretary of defense's National Security Study Group. In February 2001 Mr. Gingrich was named a distinguished visiting scholar at the National Defense University. Mr. Gingrich serves on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. A member of Congress for twenty years and speaker of the house from 1995 to 1999, Mr. Gingrich is credited as being the chief architect of the Contract with America, which led to the 1994 Republican congressional victory--the first GOP majority in forty years.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989 he served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

J. Michael McGinnis is a senior vice president and director of the health group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He was a scholar-in-residence at the National Academy of Sciences and served as the assistant surgeon general, deputy assistant secretary for health, and director of the Office for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, all at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. McGinnis founded and served as the principal architect for the Healthy People process to establish and implement national health goals and objectives, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans jointly issued by HHS and the Department of Agriculture, the first Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, and the U.S. Preventative Services Task Forces, which produced the Guide to Clinical Preventative Services.

Jeffrey Milyo is an assistant professor in the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Tufts University where he was named one of the ten best Tufts professors by both The Primary Source, a student publication, and Choosing the Right College 2000. Mr. Milyo was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, a political economy fellow at Washington University, and jointly held the Positive Political Economy Fellowship jointly at Harvard and MIT. He researches positive political economics and American public policy, including congressional elections, campaign finance, and the federal budget process. Recently, he has also examined the economics of advertising and the health consequences of social status.

Sally Satel is a W. H. Brady Fellow at AEI, a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine. She was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1995 and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Dr. Satel has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She has published articles in several professional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, and Clinical Pediatrics, and in popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, National Review, New Republic, and Slate. Dr. Satel is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, January 2001) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999).