Anthony B. Kim is research manager and editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, published annually by the Heritage Foundation. Previously, Kim served as deputy chief of staff to Heritage founder Edwin J. Feulner. Focusing on policies related to economic freedom, entrepreneurship, and investment in various countries around the world, Kim researches international economic issues. The Index of Economic Freedom is a widely respected policy guidebook that tracks the march of economic freedom around the world by measuring twelve freedoms—from property rights to entrepreneurship—in 186 countries. In 2007, after publishing the Index for a decade, Heritage executives decided that changes were needed to make it more accessible to more readers, from policy makers to investors around the globe. Kim helped oversee and implement those changes.

Kim’s commentary and opinion pieces have been published by the Wall Street Journal’s Asia edition, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the National Review Online and the Korea Herald, among other outlets. He has been quoted by major US and international media, among them the Financial Times, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Fox Business News, and Voice of America. Kim won Heritage’s prestigious Drs. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award, which goes to the employee who makes “an outstanding contribution to the analysis and promotion of a free society.” Before joining Heritage in 2001, Kim studied economics at Rutgers University. He holds a master's degree in international trade and investment policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

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