Judy Shelton
Judy Shelton is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, a non-profit public policy research and educational organization. Shelton was a former Economic Advisor to President Donald Trump during his first term and was unsuccessfully nominated by Trump for a position at the Federal Reserve. She was also a former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and former U.S. Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Shelton is known for her advocacy for a return to the gold standard and for her criticisms of the Federal Reserve. An economist specializing in global finance and monetary issues, she has been consulted on international economic and financial issues by national security officials at the White House, U.S. Congress, and the Pentagon.
Judy Shelton Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Senior Fellow
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Co-Director, Sound Money Project
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Economic Adviser
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Fellow
Academic History
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Ph.D., Business Administration
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M.B.A., Business Administration
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B.S., Business
EARLY CAREER
Shelton was an economic advisor for the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform chaired by Jack Kemp (1995–96).
She was a founding member of the board of directors of Empower America and has also served on the board of directors for Hilton Hotels and Atlantic Coast Airlines.
She also taught international finance as a visiting professor at the DUXX Graduate School of Business in Monterrey, Mexico (1995–2001).
She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a National Fellow.
She was named as a Hoover scholar and was subsequently appointed Senior Research Fellow (1985-1995).
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Shelton is the author of The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev’s Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets (1989) and Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System (1994).
She has written two monographs for Atlas: “A Guide to Sound Money” (2010) and “Fixing the Dollar Now” (2011).
She has testified before the U.S. Senate Banking, Senate Foreign Relations, House Banking, House Foreign Affairs, and Joint Economic Committee.
Her popular articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Hill, and The Weekly Standard.