FRIDE - Edwards, Mickey

Mickey Edwards

Lecturer in Legislative Politics, JFK School of Government, Harvard University

During Edward's sixteen years in Congress, he served variously on the House Budget. He was also a member of the House Republican leadership.

Edwards was one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Edwards has also served as co-chairman of a Brookings Institution/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Resources for International Affairs as well as the Brookings Working Group on Campaign Finance Reform and for five years as chairman of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
After leaving Congress, Edwards taught at the Harvard Extension School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has also served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

As of 2006, Edwards is a Lecturer of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a member of the Princeton Project on National Security. He is also the Director of the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership.