Key Personnel
The National Center
for Public Policy Research
Amy Moritz Ridenour
Amy Ridenour is President and
Chairman of The National Center for Public Policy Research. As
the founding chief executive officer, she has since 1982 promoted
the conservative and free market perspective on U.S. domestic,
foreign and defense policy issues. She frequently speaks on public
policy issues and has done
so across the U.S., in Central America and in Europe. Her articles
have been published hundreds of times, including by by USA
Today, the Sacramento Bee, the Dallas Morning News,
The Washington Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Ft. Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel, the Los Angeles Daily News and many
others. She has also served as a guest-host on the nationally-syndicated
Michael Reagan Talk Show and is a popular guest on radio and
television talk shows, appearing on such programs as Politically
Incorrect and on the Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC.
Amy Ridenour also is a member
of the board of directors of Black America's PAC, a political
action committee that works to help elect more African-Americans
to Congress and other elected offices, and she served as the
chairman of several of the conservative movement's strategy meetings,
including the Stanton meeting (foreign affairs and defense issues)
and the Family Forum meeting (social policy issues).
Amy Ridenour also served from
1993-1994 as co-host of Scoop, a public affairs show seen weekly
on the public affairs television network National Empowerment
Television (subsequently known as America's Voice).
Amy Ridenour has served as
Vice-Chairman of the International Youth Year Commission of the
U.S. (1985); as Deputy Director of the College Republican National
Committee; as Regional Coordinator for the Reagan/Bush 1980 campaign;
as Chairman of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans
and on Maryland Republican State Central Committee.
Ridenour received the American
Hero Award from the National Defense Council Foundation in 1988
and the William Paca Award from the Maryland Republican State
Central Committee in 1979. A native of Pittsburgh where she was
born in 1959, she studied Economics at the University of Maryland
at College Park.
Amy Ridenour lives with her
husband, David, and three children.
David A. Ridenour
David A. Ridenour serves as
Vice President of The National Center for Public Policy Research,
a position he has held since 1986. As Vice President, David Ridenour
has significant management responsibilities and also oversees
most of the organization's economic, regulatory, and environmental
policy programs.
Ridenour has hundreds of published
articles to his credit. His articles have appeared in such publications
as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
Investor's Business Daily, The Chicago Tribune,
The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
The Miami Herald, The Detroit News, The Dallas Morning
News, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among many
others.
David Ridenour is also co-author,
with David Alsmai, of the 1990 book Nicaragua's Continuing Revolution
(Signal Books).
A frequent commentator on environmental
and regulatory affairs and other public policy issues, Ridenour
is a popular guest on television and radio programs and has appeared
on such shows as ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC
Nightly News and CNN's "Earth Matters." Ridenour has
also twice testified before special political commissions of
the United Nations General Assembly and has testified before
congressional committees.
Prior to joining The National
Center in 1986, David Ridenour served as Executive Director of
The United States Youth Council, an international exchange foundation
established in 1945 and funded by the U.S. Information Agency.
He has served on the steering committee of the regulatory reform
coalition Project Relief (1994-1996); as co-host of Scoop, a
weekly public affairs program on National Empowerment Television,
subsequently known as America's Voice (1993-1994); as Oregon
State Liaison to the International Youth Year Commission (appointed
by Governor Victor Atiyeh in 1985); as a board member of Oregon's
1984 Reagan/Bush campaign; and as Chairman of the College Republican
Federation of Oregon (1982-1984).
David Ridenour received a political
science degree from the University of Oregon. He lives with his
wife, Amy, and their three children.
David Almasi
David Almasi serves as The
National Center's Executive Director. As executive director,
directs
The National Center's media relations; provides staff support to Project 21, and has significant management responsibilities.
Prior to serving as executive director, Almasi served as director
of media.
Almasi has served as director of media programs
for Defenders of Property Rights, Putting People First and Accuracy
in Academia. He is also an experienced writer. His commentaries
have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post,
The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald,
The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Orlando Sentinel, among
others.
Almasi is also co-author, with
David Ridenour, of the 1990 book Nicaragua's Continuing Revolution
(Signal Books).
Almasi is a 1989 graduate of
Northwestern University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Political Science with a specialization in both American Government
and Comparative Political Systems. He lives in Virginia with
his wife, Nancy.