Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.

Wayne Crews is a vice president and director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former Cato Institute scholar. A one-time Libertarian candidate for South Carolina state senate, he is widely published, a contributor to Forbes.com, and author of the annual Ten Thousand Commandments, which the Wall Street Journal called "the best measure of the overall regulatory burden." Wayne also compiles the Tip of the Costberg report on the expansion of government.

A frequent television guest and speaker on a range of policy issues, Wayne has appeared at venues ranging from the DVD Awards Showcase in Hollywood, the National Academies, the Future of Music Policy Summit, and the Consumer Electronics Show. He has testified before congressional committees on various policy issues as well as spoken at international venues such as European Commission-sponsored conferences and at the Spanish Ministry of Justice.

While not a lawyer, Wayne's work is cited in dozens of law reviews and journals and in many books. A dad of five, he can still do a handstand on a skateboard and enjoys custom motorcycles, the beach and the Crews family farm. He is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honor society.