Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Speaker Gingrich is a member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Commission on National Security, an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and a member of the Defense Policy Board.  He is also the founder of the Center for Health Transformation, a collaboration of leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21^st Century Intelligent Health System, and founder of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm. Speaker Gingrich recently served as co-chair, with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, of the Congressional Task Force on U.N. Reform, which delivered its report entitled American Interests and U.N. Reform to the Congress in June 2005. He serves as the honorary chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance.  The Speaker also writes the weekly e-letter "Winning the Future" for Human Events and has a daily national radio commentary called Winning the Future with Newt Gingrich.  He is the author of eleven books and novels, including NY Times best-seller Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America and most recently, Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in our Nation’s History and Future.


Robert Hahn is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at AEI.  Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers.  He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including The American Economic Review, The Yale Law Journal, Science, and The New York Times.  He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000) and In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2005).  In addition, Dr. Hahn is Co-Founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.


Clifford Winston is a senior fellow at the Joint Center and a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies program.  He specializes in analysis of industrial organization, regulation, and transportation. Dr. Winston is co-editor of the annual microeconomics edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Before receiving his fellowship at Brookings, he was associate professor in the transportation systems division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Civil Engineering. He is the author of numerous books and articles that have appeared in such journals as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.