Daniel J Mitchell

Dan Mitchell is the McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Heritage Foundation. He is one of America's experts on the flat tax and has been the leading international voice in the fight to preserve tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. His responsibilities at the Foundation include authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to newspaper, television, and radio media.

In addition to his Heritage Foundation responsibilities, Dan co-founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, an organization formed to protect international tax competition. Prior to joining The Heritage Foundation in 1990, Dan served as an economist for Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Dan also spent more than three years beginning every day by co-hosting a television show.

Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, Dan Mitchell earned a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of Georga. He resides with his three children in Fairfax, Virginia.