Eli Lehrer

Eli Lehrer is a vice president of The Heartland Institute who oversees Heartland’s Washington, D.C. office as well as field offices in Tallahassee, Florida, Columbus, Ohio, and Austin, Texas. In addition, Lehrer heads Heartland’s Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate which coordinates Heartland’s work addressing issues relating to insurance, risk, and credit markets.

Lehrer also played a major role in founding the smartersafer.org coalition, a coalition of taxpayer, environmental, insurance, and free-market groups dedicated to risk-based insurance rates, mitigation, and environmental protection.

Prior to joining Heartland, Lehrer worked as speechwriter to United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.). He has previously worked as a manager in the Unisys Corporation’s Homeland Security Practice, senior editor of The American Enterprise magazine, and as a fellow for The Heritage Foundation. He has spoken at Yale and George Washington Universities.

Lehrer holds a B.A. (cum laude) from Cornell University and an M.A. (with honors) from The Johns Hopkins University, where his Master’s thesis focused on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and flood insurance. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, National Review, The Public Interest, Salon.com, and dozens of other publications.

He is the co-author of The Heartland Institute monograph “Ten Principles of Property and Casualty Insurance Regulation,” editor of Heartland’s “Seven Big Ideas for Congress,” and several academic book chapters on emergency management and insurance topics.