Hoover Institution senior fellow Martin Anderson has been named the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Fellow.
Keith and Jan Hurlbut of Palos Verdes Estates, California, who have a long-standing relationship with the Hoover Institution, provided the funding for the Hurlbut fellow.
Mr. Hurlbut said, “We believe in the principles for which the Hoover Institution was founded and we wanted to do our part toward promoting those principles.”
Keith Hurlbut retired from the Aerospace Corporation after a long career as an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry. His background includes a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Jan Ellis Hurlbut earned her undergraduate degree at Pomona College, and her master’s degree in education from Stanford University. She is now retired from teaching biology for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
“We are delighted that Keith and Jan have chosen to honor the Hoover Institution with this significant gift,” said Hoover Institution director John Raisian. “Over the years, they have become well-acquainted with the Institution and its mission. Their decision to pay this tribute in perpetuity is most appreciated and I was pleased to name Martin Anderson as the first Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow.”
Martin Anderson is a senior fellow whose main interests are economic and social policy, national defense, and the American presidency.
Anderson served in the White House as special assistant to President Nixon (1969-71) and as the domestic and economic policy adviser to President Reagan (1981-82). He was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, and the President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, 1987-93.
During 1997, Anderson served on the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education. Currently he is a member of Governor Wilson’s Council of Economic Advisers in California and in 1998 was appointed chairman of the Congressional Policy Advisory Board, which advises the House Republican leadership.
Engineering and teaching are common to the Hurlbuts and the new Hurlbut fellow. Anderson also holds his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering, and has taught at Dartmouth College and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Anderson graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Anderson is a regular commentator on the PBS Nightly Business Report, and the author of The Federal Bulldozer, Welfare, The Military Draft, Revolution: The Reagan Legacy, and Impostors in the Temple: A Blueprint for Improving Higher Education.
“We have admired Martin Anderson’s excellent work for many years,” said Mr. Hurlbut. “We are proud to be associated with such an outstanding scholar. Marty thinks the way we think.”
Visit Dr. Anderson's Web Site at www.hoover.org/fellows/martin-anderson or the Hoover Institution Web Site at www.hoover.org
