Lawrenceville School
Christopher DeMuth went to which school from 1963 to 1964?
Christopher DeMuth Christopher C . DeMuth ( born August 5 , 1946 ) is an American lawyer and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute . He was the president of the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) , a conservative think tank , from 1986 to 2008 . DeMuth is widely credited with reviving AEIs fortunes after its near-bankruptcy in 1986 and leading the institute to new levels of influence and growth . Before joining AEI , DeMuth worked on regulatory issues in the Ronald Reagan administration . Education and career . DeMuth attended the Lawrenceville School , graduating in 1964 . He graduated from Harvard College in 1968 , after which he worked at the Nixon White House helping to draft speeches on environmentalism , affordable housing , and womens issues . In his youth , he was a member of the politically moderate Ripon Society . After attending law school at the University of Chicago , he worked for law firm Sidley & Austin , the Consolidated Rail Corporation , and Harvards Kennedy School of Government , where he taught that corporations cannot be racist because that would put them at a competitive disadvantage , if they were not hiring the best personnel regardless of race , and would therefore go out of business . When Reagan took office in 1981 , DeMuth joined the administration as administrator for information and regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief . He was known as Reagans deregulation czar . DeMuth later ran an economics consulting firm and edited and published AEIs Regulation magazine . Presidency of AEI . DeMuth is said to have read AEI publications as an undergraduate and used them as a lecturer at Harvard . He was appointed president of AEI at a time of crisis for the institute , after the turbulent presidency of William J . Baroody Jr . AEI was a respected institution , but Baroody had been careful to keep AEI in the political mainstream . DeMuth returned the institute to its conservative and small-government principles , allowing it to compete with The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute , and bringing in more money from conservative foundations . DeMuth restored AEIs financial fortunes , eliminating $9 million in debt and generating an asset balance of over $75 million . He also more than tripled AEIs budget during his presidency . DeMuth presided over the institute as a number of high-profile scholars joined AEI , including Charles Murray , Richard and Lynne Cheney , Michael Barone , James K . Glassman , Newt Gingrich , Karl Zinsmeister , and Ayaan Hirsi Ali . As many as twenty AEI scholars served in the George W . Bush administration . AEI scholars also influenced the administration . Announcing his departure from AEI in 2007 , DeMuth noted that the Iraq surge strategy was devised at AEI . DeMuth oversaw the creation of an AEI magazine , the founding a joint center on regulation with the Brookings Institution ( DeMuth was a fellow at the center ) , the expansion of AEIs publications , the founding of AEIs National Research Initiative to underwrite and promote research by university-based academics and independent scholars , a reorientation of AEIs foreign policy division to focus on the Middle East , and the merger of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest into AEI to form the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest . In addition to promoting the role of think tanks in public policy research and the flexibility that they have in developing innovative ideas over long periods of time , DeMuth has also been bullish on the role of the corporation in U.S . life . [ T ] hey are . . . the single most important positive force in American politics , he said in 1992 . The corporation is the transmission belt of much of our saving , prosperity , and progress . It is the place where many Americans pursue their vocations and spend most of their lives , he said in 2007 . The corporation is a vital , reality-based counterweight to those for whom politics is primary . DeMuth announced his retirement as president in October 2007 , and became a senior fellow at AEI at the beginning of 2009 . His announcement was met with praise and criticism . Conservative writers referred to him as charming and brilliant and wrote : It is just remotely possible that there may be someone whose contributions to American intellectual life over the past two decades have equaled those of Christopher DeMuth . Liberal critics have noted their disapproval of DeMuth . Since retiring as president of AEI , DeMuth has held the D.C . Searle Chair there , researching government regulation , culture , and U.S . politics . He has also been active in promoting the work of prominent 20th century U.S . political thinkers , calling them proponents of ideas timely , topical , pertinent , and relevant to today . Personal . DeMuth is married to Susan DeMuth , a physician , and they have three children . He is a board member of the State Farm Insurance Companies . Bibliography . - Christopher DeMuth and William Kristol , eds . The Neoconservative Imagination : Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol . Washington : AEI Press , 1995 . ( ) - Robert W . Crandall , Christopher DeMuth , Robert W . Hahn , Robert E . Litan , Pietro S . Nivola , Paul R . Portney . An Agenda for Federal Regulatory Reform . Washington : AEI Press , 1997 . ( ) - Christopher DeMuth and Yuval Levin , eds . Religion and the American Future . Washington : AEI Press , 2008 . ( ) External links . - Christopher DeMuths profile at the American Enterprise Institutes website