Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley is the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies. In addition to her role as a fellow and vice president of academic affairs, Dr. Bradley teaches economics courses at George Mason University. She is an Economics Professor at the Institute for World Politics and an Affiliate scholar at the Acton Institute. She has taught at Grove City College and Charles University in Prague. She serves on the Board of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Young America’s Foundation, and Praxis Circle.

Dr. Bradley’s academic work includes questions about income inequality, anthropological questions about human nature and economics, the relationship between human flourishing, economic freedom, and women’s rights, and the political economy of terrorism. Her new co-authored book, “The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism and the War on Terror,” was published last October by Cambridge University Press. She is also the co-editor and author of “Counting the Cost: Christian Perspectives on Capitalism,” “For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty,” and “Be Fruitful and Multiply: Why Economics is Necessary for Making God-Pleasing Decisions.”

Based on her academic research, she also worked as an economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Terrorism Analysis. Dr. Bradley received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2006 where she was a James M. Buchanan Scholar.