Irwin M. Stelzer

Irwin Stelzer is senior fellow emeritus at Hudson Institute. 

Prior to joining Hudson Institute in 1998, Dr. Stelzer was resident scholar and director of regulatory policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the US economic and political columnist for The Sunday Times.

Dr. Stelzer founded National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) in 1961, and served as its president for more than 20 years. He has also served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Inc., a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University; he has been a member of the board of the Regulatory Policy Institute (Oxford) and an advisor to the US Trade Representative.

As a consultant to several US and United Kingdom industries with a variety of commercial and policy problems, Dr. Stelzer advises on market strategy, pricing and antitrust issues, and regulatory matters.

His academic career includes teaching appointments at Cornell University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University. He has been elected a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a former member of the Litigation and Administrative Practice Faculty of the Practicing Law Institute. He served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Committee for the Department of Economics, and has been a teaching member of Columbia University's Continuing Legal Education Programs, and of the Visiting Committee of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

He has written and lectured on economic and policy development in the United States and Britain. He has written extensively on policy issues such as America's competitive position in the world economy, optimum regulatory policies, the consequences of European integration, and factors affecting and impeding economic growth. He has served as economics editor of the Antitrust Bulletin and is the author of Selected Antitrust Cases: Landmark Decisions: The Antitrust Laws: A Primer (with John Shenefield); The United States, A United Europe, and the United Kingdom: Three Characters in Search of a Policy, a collection of Lectures on Regulatory and Competition Policy published by the Institute of Economic Affairs; and Neoconservatism, published in the UK and US (2004).

Dr. Stelzer received his bachelor and master of arts degrees from New York University and his doctorate in economics from Cornell University.