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Heritage’s staff pursues its mission by performing timely, accurate research on key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to the American people and policymakers.

Found 104 Experts

Jonathan Butcher

@JM_Butcher

Will Skillman Fellow in Education, Center for Education Policy

David Calhoun

Visiting Fellow, China Transparency Project in Africa, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies

GianCarlo Canaparo

Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

James Jay Carafano

@JJCarafano

Vice President, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and the E. W. Richardson Fellow

Dustin Carmack

@DustinCarmack

Research Fellow, Cybersecurity, Intelligence, and Emerging Technologies, Border Security and Immigration Center

Min-Hua Chiang

Research Fellow and Economist, Asian Studies Center

Maiya Clark

Senior Research Associate, Defense Industrial Base, Center for National Defense

Victoria Coates

Senior Research Fellow, International Affairs and National Security, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom

John Cooper

@thejcoop

Senior Advisor, Communications

Michael Cunningham

Research Fellow, China, Asian Studies Center

Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D.

@kdd0211

Chief Statistician, Data Scientist, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Data Analysis

Rick A. Dearborn

Visiting Fellow, 2025 Presidential Transition Project

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