Annelise Anderson is a research fellow emerita at the Hoover Institution. She is the coauthor or coeditor of several books on Ronald Reagan and his presidency (including Reagan: In His Own Hand and Reagan: A Life in Letters) and a variety of books and articles on public policy. Anderson served as a policy adviser in Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign and the 1980 campaign and transition, and as associate director from 1981 to 1983 of the Office and Management and Budget, where she was responsible for the budgets of five cabinet departments (Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Transportation, and HUD) and forty agencies. She has also advised the governments of Russia, Romania, and the Republic of Georgia on economic reform. A graduate of Wellesley College, she holds an MA and PhD from Columbia University and taught economics and finance at California State University–Hayward for six years. She was appointed a Hoover fellow in 1983.

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