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Ed Crane
President and CEO, The Cato Institute
About Ed Crane
Ed Crane is the founder and president of the Cato Institute. Under his
leadership, the Cato Institute has grown to become one of the nation's
most prominent public policy research organizations. Crane has been a
pioneer in framing the political debate as one, not between liberal and
conservative, but rather between civil society (the voluntary sector)
and political society (government power). He was at the forefront of
promoting personal accounts in lieu of the current Social Security
system, and was one of the first national leaders of the term limits
movement. Crane is the coeditor of several books, publisher of Regulation
magazine, serves on the Board of U.S. Term Limits, and is a member of
the Mont Pelerin Society. He is a chartered financial analyst and former
vice president at Alliance Capital Management Corp. Crane's writing has
been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, the New York Times and Forbes. He has been
interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition and Talk of the
Nation, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Fox News Channel,
MSNBC, and other media. Crane holds a B.S. from the University of
California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Southern
California.