Dr. Veronique de Rugy

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 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 primary research interests include the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition, and financial privacy issues.

She writes a column for Reason magazine and is a regular contributor to The American, AEI's  online magazine. She also blogs at The Corner at National Review Online and at Big Government. 

She is the editor of the Mercatus Center publication series Mercatus on Policy. 

She is the co-author of Action ou Taxation, published in Switzerland in 1996. She is currently on the board of directors of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.

She received her M.A. in economics from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She previously directed academic programs for the Institute for Humane Studies-Europe in France.