Dr. Mitchell is the McKenna senior fellow in political economy at The Heritage Foundation, Washington DC (202.608.6224; http://www.heritage.org). He serves as Heritage's chief expert on tax policy and Social Security privatization. A former adviser on budgetary and tax matters to the Senate Finance Committee, Dan Mitchell's by-line can be found regularly in such national and international publications as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Times and Investor's Business Daily. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Board of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, Washington DC. He is a frequent guest on radio and television and a popular speaker on the lecture circuit in and outside of the beltway and the United States. And he is a member of the select US Task Force on Information Exchange and Financial Privacy which published the noted "Report on Financial Privacy, Law Enforcement and Terrorism" ( http://www.prosperity-institute.org/projects/PI-TF-Report.pdf ).
Prior to joining The Heritage Foundation in 1990, Dr. Mitchell was Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and master's and bachelor's degrees in economics from the University of Georgia.