Dan Rothschild

Daniel M. Rothschild is the director of the Center for Civics, Education, and Opportunity at the Ronald Reagan Institute.

From 2014 until 2024, Dan served as executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Under Dan’s leadership, Mercatus tripled the number students in its fellowship programs to more than 600, raised and distributed $70 million in support of social entrepreneurs, analyzed seven million state and federal regulations, and saw 3,000 schools nationwide adopt its high school economics curriculum. In this same period, Mercatus launched new research initiatives on housing reform, monetary policy, democratic governance, and emerging technologies.

Dan is on the governing or advisory boards of the Paragon Health Institute, Antigua Forum (Guatemala), Prosperiti (India), and the Economic Policy Information Center. Previously, he was director of external affairs at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the R Street Institute.

His popular writing and articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Reason, Weekly Standard, Roll Call, The Hill, Chicago Policy Review, Economic Affairs, and many other popular and policy publications. He was a 2012-13 National Review Institute Washington fellow.

Dan has testified before the U.S. Congress and several state legislatures on tax and fiscal policy, government reform, and disaster recovery policy.

Dan holds degrees from Grinnell College, the University of Manchester, and the University of Michigan. He and his wife live with their three children in Arlington, Virginia.