Michael Johns (policy analyst)
| Michael Johns | |
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September 8, 1964 Allentown, Pennsylvania |
| Education | University of Miami (B.B.A.) |
| Occupation | Health care executive, public policy analyst, writer, commentator |
| Website | Official website |
Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964) is an American conservative commentator, policy analyst and writer, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush, and a leader and spokesman in the Tea Party movement. He is also a health care executive.
Johns was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Emmaus High School. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1986, receiving a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in economics. As a University of Miami student, he was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor awarded a student by the university. He has also studied humanities at the University of Cambridge, England.
Johns began his political and public policy career as a Lyndon B. Johnson fellow working with Rep. Donald L. Ritter.
In 1986, he began work at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank. Johns was an assistant editor of the Foundation's journal, Policy Review, for which he wrote on national security and foreign policy issues.
In 1988, he became a policy analyst for African and Third World affairs in the Heritage Foundation's foreign policy and defense studies department. While there, he researched and wrote on topics including South Africa, U.S. relations with Zaire and Kenya, the famine in Ethiopia, and the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique.
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