Steven Hayward is senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He has been the author of PRI’s annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators since its launch in 1994. He is also the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook. He is the author of four books, including, most recently, Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders (CrownForum) and The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 (PrimaForum), the first of a two-volume treatment of Reagan’s place in American public life.

Hayward writes frequently on a wide range of issues, including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy, and has published in dozens of scholarly and popular journals including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The American Spectator, Forbes, The Public Interest, and Policy Review. Hayward holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Government from Claremont Graduate University. He is also an adjunct fellow and lecturer at the John M. Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, and has been a Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an Earhart Fellow, and an Olive Garvey Fellow of the Mont Pelerin Society.