The Business of America

Timothy Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on civil society, family, localism, religion in America, economic competition, and electoral politics. He is concurrently a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner . Mr. Carney’s most recent book is titled  Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be . He is also the...

Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant and policy analyst. He taught economics and history at Cambridge University and subsequently worked in finance as an investment analyst and in corporate finance before becoming a special adviser to the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has written extensively for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Spectator, Wall Street...

Joel Kotkin is the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and directs the Center for Demographics and Policy there. He is Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He has a regular column in Spiked in the UK, the National Post in Canada and the American Mind . He also writes regularly for UnHerd , Quillette , the Los Angeles...

Kirsten Axelsen is a Health Innovator Fellow with The Aspen Institute, and a Visiting Scholar with The American Enterprise Institute. Kristen focuses on biopharma reimbursement and health policy and has worked with biopharmaceutical and related companies for over 20 years on business strategy and public affairs in the US, EU, China and Emerging Markets. She is an advisor to the Life Sciences secto...

Bob Beauprez is a rancher and former banker and politician from Boulder County. He was made chair of the Boulder County Republicans in 1997, and two years later was named chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. He represented Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District from 2003 to 2007. A devout Catholic and member of the Republican Party, Beauprez has long maintained his stance as a moderate co...

Steve McKee is the co-founder of McKee Wallwork, a nationally recognized marketing advisory firm that helps organizations and their people become all they're designed to be.  He is the author of "When Growth Stalls: How it Happens, Why You're Stuck and What to Do About It", an award-winning business book now published in four languages, and "Power Branding: Leveraging the...

Patrice Onwuka is the director of the Center for Economic Opportunity at the Independent Women’s Forum. Patrice co-hosts WMAL-FM’s morning show O’Connor & Company, the leading talk radio station in the DC area every Friday. Patrice is also a senior adjunct fellow with The Philanthropy Roundtable and a Tony Blankley Fellow at The Steamboat Institute. Patrice has worked in policy, advocacy, and...

David Williams is the President of The Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPA).  In his 30 years in Washington, DC, David has become an expert in finding and exposing government waste and has helped fine tune criteria in identifying and ultimately eliminating earmarks.  David has appeared on numerous television, radio, and print outlets such as ABC World News Tonight, The Jim Bohannon Show...

Dr. Anish Bhatnagar is Chief Executive Officer at Soleno Therapeutics. He is a physician with over 15 years of experience in the medical device and biopharmaceutical industries. His experience spans development of biologics, drugs, drug-device combinations and diagnostic as well as therapeutic medical devices. His prior experience includes working at Coulter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 1998 to 2000...

Adam Savit serves as the Director for the China Policy Initiative at America First Policy Instituite (AFPI). He previously served as China Program Coordinator at the Center for Security Policy, building the program from the ground up, and has held research and communications roles in the national security policy space for more than a decade. He was President of the Log Cabin Republicans of Washing...

Hannah Cox is a prominent libertarian writer, commentator, activist, and the Co-Founder of BASEDPolitics. Cox has an extensive resume that began with 5 years working in Nashville’s music industry, interning for Taylor Swift’s management, coordinating red carpets, and overseeing promotional campaigns. Her advocacy work began in 2013 when she served as a pro-bono policy advocate for the National All...

Candace Carroll is the state director at Americans for Prosperity (AFP) for South Carolina. Carroll is an upstate SC native who has served with AFP for a total of five years. Before joining the organization in 2016 as a field director, she served on Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign and development roles for The Heritage Foundation and Winthrop University.  Carroll has provided commentary to severa...

Leslie Graves is the founder and Publisher of Ballotpedia. Graves’s career in digital media and civic activism has spanned several decades, and she has contributed academic scholarship in various publications.

Peter Pitts is President and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and serves as a Visiting Professor at University of Paris School of Medicine. He is a former member of the United States Senior Executive Service and Associate Commissioner of the US Food & Drug Administration where he served as senior communications and policy adviser to the Commissioner. He supervised F...

Mark Walker, Chairman and CEO of Performance Kitchen , the leading Food Is Medicine company revolutionizing the US Healthcare System. Performance Kitchen specializes in the use of Medically Tailored Meals to treat chronic disease. Mark is one of the leading experts in the country on the new industry of Food Is Medicine, which is the application of healthy food paid for by the US Healthcare System....

Chris Jahn is President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the leading association representing the $553-billion U.S. chemicals industry. In this role, Jahn is responsible for driving a pro-growth, science-based public policy agenda that fosters the development of groundbreaking products to improve lives; creates jobs and economic expansion; and enhances public and environmental heal...

Elaine Parker is Chief Communications Officer for Job Creators Network, a nonpartisan organization founded by Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus. Elaine leads the organization’s overall strategic media objectives and outreach for members and develops policy positions for the organization.

Thomas M. Sullivan is vice president of small business policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Working with chambers of commerce and the U.S. Chamber’s nationwide network, Sullivan harnesses the views of small businesses and translates that grassroots power into federal policies that bolster free enterprise and reward entrepreneurship. He runs the U.S. Chamber’s Small Business Council, engaging th...

Phyllis Arthur is Senior Vice President for Infectious Diseases and Emerging Science Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). In this role Ms. Arthur is responsible for working with member companies in vaccines, antimicrobial resistance and biodefense on policy, legislative and regulatory issues.