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 Stuart Anderson, Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, served as Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning and Counselor to the Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service from August 2001 to January 2003. He spent four and a half years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, first for Senator Spencer Abraham and then as Staff Director of the subcommittee for Senator Sam Brownback. Prior to that, Stuart was Director of Trade and Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., where he produced reports on the military contributions of immigrants and the role of immigrants in high technology. He has an M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from Drew University. Stuart has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Advisory Board Members Cesar Conda served as Vice President Dick Cheney’s principal adviser on domestic and economic policy issues, supervising the Vice President’s five person domestic policy staff. Prior to joining the White House in January 2001, Conda served twelve years in various positions in the United States Senate including Administrative Assistant and Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) (now the Secretary of Energy), Minority Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Small Business, and Legislative Assistant for U.S. Senator Robert W. Kasten, Jr. (R-WI). As Senator Abraham's Legislative Director, Conda supervised and directed a legislative and committee staff that produced twenty-two pieces of legislation signed into public law, the most of any freshman Senate office from the class of 1995. In 1996, Mr. Conda was Policy Adviser for the Dole-Kemp Presidential Campaign. In 1999, Conda received the “Congressional Staffer of the Year Award” from the Information Technology Industry Council, in recognition of his work on high technology legislation. Roll Call, a leading Capitol Hill publication, recognized Conda in its "Fabulous Fifty" list of influential Congressional staffers in 1997, 1998 and 1999. He has written numerous articles on a wide variety of policy issues for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Journal of Commerce, San Diego Union Tribune, Human Events, and Tax Notes. Dr. Richard Vedder is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has written extensively on labor issues, labor mobility, immigration, and tax policy. He has authored such books as The American Economy in Historical Perspective and, with Lowell Gallaway, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America. His other books include Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History, co-editor, and The American Economy in Historical Perspective. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Vedder has written over 100 scholarly papers published in academic journals and books, and his work has also appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. Vedder has been an economist with the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. James W. Ziglar served as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from August 2001 until November 2002, when he retired from federal service. Ziglar served in the federal government for more than 15 years. In addition to his position at the INS, he served as sergeant at arms of the U.S. Senate, as assistant secretary of the Interior for water and science – where he oversaw the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey – and as a congressional and public affairs officer at the Department of Justice. Ziglar began his legal career in 1972 as a clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun before joining the New York firm of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander and Ferdon, where he specialized in public securities law. In 1977, he joined O’Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth and Beshears as a partner in the Phoenix office, where he established and managed the firm’s public securities practice. Ziglar’s investment banking experience includes serving as a managing director of UBS PaineWebber Inc., as a senior vice president of Dillon, Read & Co. and as a managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Ziglar’s private sector career has spanned almost 23 years. He has been widely published in national publications and has appeared on major national television programs. |
