Our Scholars
AEI scholars are committed to making the intellectual, moral, and practical case for expanding freedom, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening the free enterprise system in America and around the world. Our work explores ideas that further these goals, and AEI scholars take part in this pursuit with academic freedom. AEI operates independently of any political party and has no institutional positions. Our scholars’ conclusions are fueled by rigorous, data-driven research and broad-ranging evidence.
Find a scholar by policy area:
Senior Fellow and Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy
Joseph Antos
Research Areas
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Affordable Care Act
- Single-Payer Health Insurance
- Uninsured
- Cost of Prescription Drugs
Senior Fellow
Claude Barfield
Research Areas
- International trade policy
- Science and technology policy
- The functioning of the GATT/WTO system
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Robert J. Barro
Research Areas
- US economy
- Economic growth
- Monetary policy
- Tax and budget policy
Senior Fellow
Andrew G. Biggs
Research Areas
- Social Security reform
- Public and private sector compensation
- State and local government pensions
Senior Fellow
Alex Brill
Research Areas
- Health care policy
- US Economy
- Tax policy
- Retirement issues
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Labor markets
President Emeritus
Arthur C. Brooks
Research Areas
- Free enterprise
- Culture
- Politics
- Economic life in America
- Social entrepreneurship
- Philanthropy
Senior Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair
James C. Capretta
Research Areas
- Health care policy
- Market-based reform of US health care
- Entitlement reform
- US budget policy
- Global trends in aging
- health
- and retirement program reforms
Nonresident Fellow
Amitabh Chandra
Research Areas
- Biopharmaceutical innovation and pricing
- Value in health care
- Medical malpractice
- Racial disparities in health care
John H. Makin Visiting Scholar
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Research Areas
- Macroeconomics
- Economic modeling
- Economic history
- Digital currency
Research Fellow
Scott Ganz
Research Areas
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic management
- Utilities regulation
- Financial regulation
- Pharmaceutical regulation
- Quantitative methods and machine learning
- Organizational design
Nonresident Senior Fellow
R. Richard Geddes
Research Areas
- Infrastructure public and private partnerships
- US postal system and delivery policy
- Corporate governance
Senior Fellow
Scott Gottlieb
Research Areas
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Cost of prescription drugs
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health care reform
- Political and clinical trends in medicine
- Medical innovation
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Phil Gramm
Research Areas
- Social Security reform
- Health care Reform
- Tax reform
Nonresident Senior Fellow
R. Glenn Hubbard
Research Areas
- Health care policy
- Poverty
- Finance
- Financial markets & institutions
- Tax & budget issues
Visiting Fellow
Robert Kulick
Research Areas
- Competition policy
- Antitrust
- Labor policy
- Consumer protection
Senior Fellow
Paul H. Kupiec
Research Areas
- Federal Reserve
- Basel III
- Wall Street & banking
- Impact of financial regulation policies
- Systemic risk
Senior Fellow
Desmond Lachman
Research Areas
- Global macroeconomy
- Exchange rate policy
- U.S. housing market
- Multilateral institutions
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Bruce D. Meyer
Research Areas
- Poverty
- Inequality
- Social safety net programs
Nonresident Fellow
Brian J. Miller
Research Areas
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health care competition policy
- Health care policy
- Medicare Public health policy
- Veterans’ health affairs