Veronique de Rugy
Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow
Entrepreneurship, Hurricane Katrina - Gulf Coast Recovery, Tax and Other Fiscal Policy, Homeland Security, Business, Public Choice, Global Prosperity Initiative, Government Accountability Project, Regulatory Studies Program, Mercatus
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Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. She was previously a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and a research fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Her research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.
Ms. de Rugy is the coauthor of Action ou Taxation, published in Switzerland in 1996. She is currently on the board of directors of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
Ms. de Rugy earned a MA in economics from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine and a PhD in economics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She previously directed academic programs for the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in France.
