Cato Institute

Leadership & Staff

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Roger Pilon

• Vice President for Legal Affairs

Gene Healy

• Vice President

Andrew M Grossman

• adjunct scholar

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

• Senior Fellow

Xia Yeliang

• Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Walter Olson

• Senior Fellow

Trevor Burrus

• Research Fellow, Center for Constitutional Studies

Tom G Palmer

• Senior Fellow and Director of Cato University

Tim Lynch • Director, Project on Criminal Justice

• Director, Project on Criminal Justice

Thaya Brook Knight

• Associate Director of Financial Regulation Studies

Board Members

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Elizabeth Price Foley Professor of Law, Florida International University

• Editorial Board, Cato Supreme Court Review

Howard S Rich Philadelphia real estate investor; Chairman, Americans for Limited Government (ALG)

• Director

David H Padden

• Director

Ethelmae C Humphreys

• Director

Fred Young Young Radiator Company

• Director

Donald G Smith

• Director

Richard J Dennis

• Director

Frank Bond

• Director

K Tucker Andersen Senior Consultant, Cumberland Associates LLC

• Director

David Koch Billionaire industrialist; helped fund vast conservative, libertarian political operation

• Director

Donors

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Charles Koch Foundation Grantmaking foundation controlled by Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch

• grant · 2,170,000 USD ('14)

Claws Foundation Private foundation | Herndon, VA

• Donation · 1,000,000 USD ('11)

David H. Koch Charitable Foundation

• Grant · 500,000 USD ('01)

Mercer Family Foundation consrvative Robert Mercer's private grant-making foundation

• Grant · 300,000 USD ('16) [+1]

• Grant · 300,000 USD ('14)

Claude R. Lambe Foundation Koch family controlled funding mechanism

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('00) [+7]

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('01)

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('99)

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('02)

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('05)

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('06)

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('07)

• Grant ('09)

Walton Family Foundation Inc Philanthropic foundation affiliated with family that owns Walmart

• Donation/Grant · 75,000 USD ('15→'16)

Sarah Scaife Foundation Conservative funding juggernaut

• Grant · 40,000 USD ('09) [+1]

• Grant ('09)

California Community Foundation Mission: To lead positive systemic change that strengthens Los Angeles' community (as stated on 2015 Form 990)

• Donation/Grant · 30,753 USD ('14)

Jewish Communal Fund Publicly supported foundation that helps people meet philanthropic and tax-saving goals

• Donation/Grant · 11,851 USD ('14)

Atlas Network US free market think tank

• Donation/Grant · 11,545 USD ('16)

Members

Center for Educational Freedom Cato Institute project

• Member

Memberships

State Policy Network right-wing think tank network

• Associate Member

Services & Transactions

Milton Friedman American economist and public intellectual,

• honoree

Peter Thiel Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir Cofounder; Chess prodigy

• author ('09)

Institute for Free Trade Pro-Brexit thinktank

• Service/Transaction*

Steven J Milloy Foxnews hack, secretly paid by tobacco industry spokesperson, operator of junkscience.com

• author

Students

Rebecca Bernbach Freelance Writer GMO Debate

• Graduate*

Miscellaneous Relationships

George Soros Currency speculator and major donor to liberal groups

• panelist*

The Adam Smith Institute UK neoliberal think-tank and lobbying group

• Affiliation*

Institute of Economic Affairs Free-market UK think tank

• Affiliation* [+1]

• Hosted Lecture (Jun 8 '16)*

Arron Banks British businessman and Conservative, UKIP political donor

• Delievered Brexit Speech (Apr 30 '16→May 3 '16)*