Mauro De Lorenzo

Mauro De Lorenzo is responsible for creating research and educational initiatives on individual and constitutional freedoms, free enterprise, the benefits of free competition, the relationship between markets and character formation, entrepreneurship, and enterprise solutions to poverty.

Before joining the Foundation, De Lorenzo served as a resident fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., where he is currently a visiting fellow. In a pro bono capacity, he staffs former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for his service on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).  He studied linguistics and cognitive science at the University of Delaware and development studies and social anthropology at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  During his graduate studies, he conducted research for several years in Uganda, eastern Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.