Stan Veuger
- Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
- Chair, Chapter Committee
Stan Veuger is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives, and an affiliate of AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility. He is also an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and a fellow at the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs. He has been a visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard University a number of times, most recently in the fall of 2025, and was a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution in May 2022.
Dr. Veuger’s research has been published in leading academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the editor, with Michael R. Strain, of Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy (2016) and Preserving Links in the Pandemic: Policies to Maintain Worker-Firm Attachment in the OECD (2023).
He comments frequently on economics, politics, and popular culture for general audiences. His writing has been featured in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. His broadcast appearances include CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Telemundo, and Univision.
Dr. Veuger received a PhD and an AM in economics from Harvard University. He also holds degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of London, and Utrecht University.
He chairs the NAF’s Chapter Committee and its Washington, DC, chapter. He is also a member of the NAF’s Executive Committee. Born and raised in Breda, the Netherlands, he lives in the District of Columbia with his wife and two children.
