Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches and writes extensively on demographics, economic development, and international security.  Mr Eberstadt is also a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), and a founding board member of HRNK, the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. His many books and monographs include Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (revised editon 2022); The Essential Nicholas Eberstadt: Volume I (2018);  Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic (2012); Russia’s Peacetime Population Crisis (2010); The End of North Korea (1999); The Tyranny of Number (1995), The Poverty of Communism (1988), and Poverty In China (1979). Mr Eberstadt has offered invited testimony before the US Congress on numerous occasions and has served as consultant or adviser for a wide variety of units within the US government. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University. Mr. Eberstadt was awarded the prestigious Bradley Prize, and he delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture in 2020.