Since 2015, Lawson Bader serves as president and CEO of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Before coming to DonorsTrust, he amassed twenty years’ experience leading free-market research and education groups including the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He began his career in DC as special assistant at the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, then worked as a legislative analyst/paralegal with Pierson, Semmes & Finley, and managed government relations at SRI International. He is a former weekly columnist with Human Events, and a Kiplinger contributor. He is the former president of the Antigua Forum at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, and is a member of Mont Pelerin Society. He serves on the governing boards of Reason Foundation, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Free Society Coalition, and Our America. He is Chairman of State Policy Network. Lawson earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree in public policy from Johns Hopkins University.
