Christopher DeMuth

Christopher DeMuth
Christopher DeMuth, 2014
Born	Christopher C. DeMuth (1946-08-05) August 5, 1946 (age 70)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	The Lawrenceville School Harvard College (A.B.) University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)
Occupation	Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute
Spouse(s)	Susan DeMuth
Children	Three children

Christopher C. DeMuth (born August 5, 1946, in Kenilworth, Ill.) is an American lawyer and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. He was the president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank, from 1986 to 2008. DeMuth is widely credited with reviving AEI's fortunes after its near-bankruptcy in 1986 and leading the institute to new levels of influence and growth. Before joining AEI, DeMuth worked on regulatory issues in the Ronald Reagan administration.

DeMuth attended the Lawrenceville School, graduating in 1964. He graduated from Harvard College in 1968, after which he worked at the Nixon White House helping to draft speeches on environmentalism, affordable housing, and women's issues. In his youth, he was a member of the politically moderate Ripon Society. After attending law school at the University of Chicago, he worked for law firm Sidley & Austin, the Consolidated Rail Corporation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he taught that corporations cannot be racist because that would put them at a competitive disadvantage, if they were not hiring the best personnel regardless of race, and would therefore go out of business.

When Reagan took office in 1981, DeMuth joined the administration as administrator for information and regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief. He was known as Reagan's "deregulation czar."