Biography
Jeff Bell ran for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1978 and 1982. Bell also worked as an aide to U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, and to U.S. Representative Jack Kemp of New York State. Bell is a former president of the Manhattan Institute, has served as a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University; a visiting professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University; and as the DeWitt Wallace Fellow in Communications at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He presently serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union and of the Campaign Finance Institute at George Washington University. Bell is also a visiting scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. From 1988 to 2000, Bell served as president of Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon, an economic and political forecasting company based in Arlington, Virginia. A principal of Capital City Partners from 2000 - 2012, a public affairs firm, Bell participated in the firm's contract with the United States Department of Health and Human Services to promote greater awareness of human trafficking in the United States. Since 2010, Bell has been director of policy of the American Principles Project (APP), a Washington-based advocacy group. He heads APP’s Gold Is Money project. Articles written in this capacity include:
- “Our Unaccountable Fed,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2011 (with Sean Fieler);
- “Follow the Money,” The Weekly Standard 21 February 2011;
- “Requiem for the Paper Standard and a Call for Restoration of the Gold Standard,” Washington Examiner, August 15, 2011;
Bell is a graduate of Columbia University and a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is married (Rosalie O'Connell), the father of four children, and resides in Annandale, Virginia.
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