Edwin Feulner
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Edwin J. Feulner (born August 12, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is a founder and current President of the Heritage Foundation, one of the world's most influential public policy research institutes. The mission of the Heritage Foundation is "to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."
In 1989, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal,the second highest civilian award in the United States awarded by the President of the United States, by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He is also past president and current Treasurer and Trustee of the Mont Pelerin Society, a global economics society. He is the author of four books.
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[edit] Education
Feulner holds a Bachelor's Degree from Regis College (since upgraded to Regis University) in Denver, Colorado. He holds two graduate degrees, a Master's in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.
[edit] Belle Haven Consultants
In 1997, Feulner formed a for-profit entity, Belle Haven Consultants, together with Kenneth Sheffer, Feulner's chief personal adviser on Asia policy. Feulner's wife, Linda, later took his place as a partner until, 2001, when she became a paid senior adviser in the firm.
In 2001 Feulner traveled to Malaysia on a Heritage-funded trip with his wife, Ken Sheffer, Tom DeLay and two other Republican congresspeople and their spouses, and Alexander Strategy Group president Ed Buckham. By the end of 2001, Belle Haven had hired Alexander Strategy for help "promoting and advocating Malaysia's positive investment climate and business opportunities" in connection with a company called PK Baru Energy. Megat Junid, an associate of then-prime minister Mahathir Mohammed, said in a 2004 interview that he organized Malaysia Exchange after talks with Edwin Feulner. Though in past years Heritage had been publicly critical of Mahathir, Feulner hosted a dinner reception to honor the prime minister. According to U.S. Senate records, Belle Haven paid the Alexander Strategy Group at least $620,000 between September 2001 and when the lobbying group was dissolved in 2006. Around the same time, Belle Haven also hired three other Washington lobbying firms, including one run by Heritage senior fellow and former U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop, to support its Malaysian campaign, paying them a total of $780,000. [1] [2]
[edit] Other
As president of the Heritage Foundation, Feulner's total compensation for 2005 was $633,849.[3]
Since 2006, Feulner has been a member of the Honorary Board of Trustees of Fundación Burke in Spain. He is a devout Roman Catholic, whose sister is a nun, Sr. Joanne Feulner.
[edit] References
- ^ Thomas B. Edsall. "Think Tank's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties Grew: Business Interests Overlapped Policy", Washington Post, April 17, 2005.
- ^ Zach Coleman and Chaim Estulin. "Houses of scandal", The Hong Kong Standard, January 28, 2006.
- ^ Noelle Barton, Maria Di Mento, and Alvin P. Sanoff, "Top Nonprofit Executives See Healthy Pay Raises", Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 28, 2006
