Scott Wallsten is a Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF he was a senior fellow at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an economist at The World Bank, a scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a staff economist at the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. His interests include industrial organization and public policy, and his research has focused on regulation, competition, privatization, and science and technology policy. His research has been published in numerous academic journals and his commentaries have appeared in newspapers throughout the world. He has a PhD in economics from Stanford University.