"Whither the Center-Right?"

Join Robert Doar, the president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the United States' premier public policy think tanks, for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes. Topics discussed will include the place of the center-right in the American conservative movement amid the current populist moment, the role of evidence-based policy institutions in American politics today, and the broader importance of conversations across ideological differences.

Speaker Bios:

Robert Doar is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Doar became AEI’s 12th president in July 2019, leading one of the nation’s oldest and most respected public policy think tanks. Since becoming president of AEI, Doar has recruited dozens of leading scholars and fellows across multiple issue areas and launched a new research division focused on Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. He joined AEI in 2014 to lead the Institute’s opportunity and mobility studies program after serving for more than 20 years in leadership positions in the social service programs of New York state and New York City.

• Celeste Watkins-Hayes
• Robert Doar
• American Enterprise Institute
• AEI
• Republican Party
• politics
• Public and nonprofit management
• Domestic policy
• Leadership
• Conservative movement
• Populism
• Conversations Across Differences