
Matt Mayer
Matt A. Mayer is President of the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Ohio’s premier free market think tank, and a Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Mayer served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under its first leader, Tom Ridge, and his successor, Michael Chertoff. In that post he led the department's terrorism preparedness efforts and advised DHS leaders on policy and operational issues. He is the author of the 2009 book “Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway,” which features a Foreword by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III.