Frederic Sautet is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Editor of the Mercatus Policy Series at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is a member of the graduate faculty at George Mason University.

Prior to joining Mercatus, Dr. Sautet was a senior economist at the New Zealand Commerce Commission and a senior analyst at the New Zealand Treasury where he focused on industrial policy, entrepreneurship, utility development, and tax policy. Dr. Sautet's current work focuses, among other things, on entrepreneurship, institutions, and social change.

Dr. Sautet is the co-author of Action ou Taxation (published in 1996 by Editions Slatkine, Geneva, and co-edited with Philippe Lacoude), An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm (published in 2000 by Routledge, London), and the Senior Editor of the Mercatus Policy Series. His writings in economics have been published or are forthcoming in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, The Independent Review, Le Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, The Review of Austrian Economics, The New Zealand Law Journal, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, and other scholarly publications. He is a contributor to the Handbook of Research on Clusters, The New Handbook on Austrian Economics (Peter Boettke Ed.), and Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Benjamin Powell Ed. with a foreword by Deepak Lal). He also has many publications on policy issues in the Mercatus Policy Series, the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development Occasional Paper Series, the New Zealand Business Roundtable policy papers, and other outlets. Dr. Sautet has consulted with many government agencies, international organizations, and policy institutes, among which the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the French Government, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and Excellence in Government. He is also a coauthor of The Austrian Economists weblog.

Dr. Sautet earned a doctorate in Economics from the Université de Paris Dauphine and did the course work for his doctorate at the Institut des Etudes Politiques in Paris. He also studied at New York University under the auspices of Prof. Israel Kirzner and Mario Rizzo as a visiting scholar and post-doctorate fellow.