18 Facts About Edwin Feulner

Edwin Feulner served as The Heritage Foundation's president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018.

Edwin Feulner has three sisters: Mary Ann, Joan, and Barbara.

Edwin Feulner was a Richard M Weaver Fellow at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.

Edwin Feulner began his career as an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then called the Center for Strategic Studies.

Edwin Feulner later became a congressional aide to Wisconsin Republican Melvin Laird.

Edwin Feulner subsequently became a long-serving executive assistant to Illinois Republican congressman Phil Crane.

Edwin Feulner served as executive director of the Republican Study Committee.

Edwin Feulner was a founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation from its founding in 1973 until 1977.

In January 2013, Edwin Feulner published a column, "Economic Freedom on the Wane", reviewing the findings of the foundation's annual Index of Economic Freedom, an ongoing joint project between The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation since 1997.

In 2023, Edwin Feulner retired as chairman of Heritage's board of trustees, a role he briefly resumed in 2017 following the 2016 election of Donald Trump.

In September 2023, Edwin Feulner endorsed Mike Pence in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries; Pence dropped out of the race the following month, in October 2023.

In 2014, Edwin Feulner served as president and treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Edwin Feulner has served as a trustee and as chairman of the board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Edwin Feulner has been a member of the board of the National Chamber Foundation, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and the board of trustees and a life trustee of Regis University, his undergraduate alma mater.

Edwin Feulner became a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and was the foundation's chair in 2021.

Edwin Feulner was vice chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, known as the Kemp Commission, from 1995 to 1996.

Edwin Feulner was the chairman of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy from 1982 to 1991, a consultant on domestic policy to US president Ronald Reagan, and an adviser to several government departments and agencies.

In 1989, Edwin Feulner received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest civilian award in the United States.