Will Rinehart

Will Rinehart is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the political economy of technology and innovation. His research covers policy areas such as diagnostic testing regulation, federal agency regulatory guidance, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the regulation of artificial intelligence. He also serves as an expert at the Federalist Society’s Emerging Technology Working Group, which is part of the Regulatory Transparency Project.

Before joining AEI, Mr. Rinehart was a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. He was also the director of technology and innovation policy at the American Action Forum, a research fellow at TechFreedom, and the director of operations at the International Center for Law & Economics. Additionally, Mr. Rinehart worked for the Progress & Freedom Foundation, focusing on advertising policy and internet governance; the Illinois Policy Institute, where he studied state-level budget, energy, and tax issues; and the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at the University of Illinois Chicago as a research assistant in technology and civic engagement. Mr. Rinehart was a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry and a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center. Additionally, he served on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and Consumer Advocacy Committee.

Mr. Rinehart’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Wired, Morning Consult, The Hill, Forbes, Reason, Marginal Revolution, and Overlawyered and on BBC Radio and NPR, in addition to other broadcast media. He speaks regularly on topics related to tech policy, has been cited in regulatory orders from the Federal Communications Commission, and has been featured in Supreme Court petitions.

Mr. Rinehart has an MS in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in political science from the University of Illinois.