The Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley Institution of Brigham Young University (BYU) is an organization at BYU that seeks to promote high level scholarship and disseminate the ideas broadly. Currently the institutions director is Richard N. Williams.
The organization was founded through the efforts of Jack Wheatley and started in 2007. Wheatley had previously been on the board of Stanford University's Hoover Institution for more than 20 years and wanted to have the new BYU institution fulfill somewhat the same roles.
Beginning on January 11, 2010 the Institution had several distinguished outside speakers such as Zbigniew Brzezinski. One of the leading figures behind the institution's success in inviting such speakers was one of its senior fellows, Amos Jordan, who previously had been president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.
In October of 2009 the Institution held a forum on combating the New Atheism.
The board of overseers consists of: