Stuart Butler
The Heritage Foundation
Stuart Butler is Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. He plans and oversees the Foundation's research and publications on all domestic issues. He is an expert on health, welfare and Social Security policy. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Graduate School and in 2002 he was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Dr. Butler has authored books and articles on a wide range of issues. In 1981, he wrote Enterprise Zones: Greenlining the Inner Cities (New York, Universe Books), and in 1985, his book Privatizing Federal Spending (Universe) developed a political strategy for reducing the size of government. His book, Out of the Poverty Trap (New York, Free Press, 1987), co-authored with Anna Kondratas, laid out a comprehensive conservative "war on poverty." A National Health System for America, co-authored with Edmund Haislmaier and published in 1989 by the Heritage Foundation, laid out a blueprint for a national health system based on free market principles.
Dr. Butler has played a prominent role in the debate over Medicare, health care for working Americans, and Social Security reform, arguing for solutions based on individual choice and market competition. But he is also widely recognized as an individual who is willing to work with people across the ideological spectrum to find solutions to the nation’s problems. He has written extensively on many issues and has testified frequently before Congress on a broad range of issues.
Stuart Butler was born in Shrewsbury, England, in 1947 and emigrated to the United States in 1975. He became an American citizen in 1995. He was educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics in 1968, a master's degree in economics and history in 1971, and a Ph.D. in American economic history in 1978. He is married with two daughters, and resides in Washington DC.
