Program & Freedom Foundation

Bret Swanson is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Innovation at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. His research (http://www.pff.org/cgi/publications.html) focuses on the growth of the Internet and the economics of globalization. Swanson presents his research in speeches around the globe, and he is a frequent contributor to the The Wall Street Journal editorial page on topics ranging from broadband communications to monetary policy. Prior to joining PFF, Swanson was Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Technology and Democracy Project. For eight years he also advised technology investors, first as a technology analyst and then as Executive Editor of the Gilder Technology Report, a popular investment strategy service focused on semiconductors and communications. Swanson began his career as an aide to U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. Swanson studied economics at Princeton University and now lives in Zionsville, Indiana.