Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project today announced that Elizabeth Wilkins, Former Chief of Staff to the Chair and Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the FTC, will join the leading anti-monopoly group as Senior Fellow. The hire comes alongside other key additions to Economic Liberties’ staff, including healthcare experts Benjamin Jolley and Hayden Rooke-Ley, as the advocacy group continues to invest in healthcare policy research and analysis.

“I’m excited to join an organization that’s at the forefront of the fight to reclaim economic liberty for everyday Americans in the face of dangerously concentrated corporate power,” said Elizabeth Wilkins, Economic Liberties’ new Senior Fellow. “In just a few years, Economic Liberties has cemented itself as an indispensable advocate and organizer on a wide range of campaigns that have advanced this larger goal—from eliminating junk fees and noncompetes to stopping anticompetitive mergers and increasingly challenging corporate power in healthcare. Having worked on many of these issues at the Federal Trade Commission, I’m thrilled for the opportunity to build on that work alongside this committed team of strategists, researchers, and legal experts.”

Elizabeth Wilkins was the Chief of Staff to the Chair and Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the FTC. Before joining the FTC, Wilkins served as Senior Advisor to the White House Chief of Staff. Prior to that, she worked in several senior leadership roles at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, including Senior Counsel for Policy and Chief of Staff. Wilkins also previously served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court, and to then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Before law school, Wilkins was a policy advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.

“Elizabeth’s leadership driving the Commission’s strategy across industries and issues areas, from banning restrictive noncompete agreements to key suits against Amazon and other monopolists, will be valuable to the advancement of Economic Liberties’ mission,” said Nidhi Hegde, Interim Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project. “We’re thrilled to welcome her alongside Benjamin Jolley and Hayden Rooke-Ley, who each bring unique and extensive experience in healthcare policy as we continue to deepen our focus in those markets.”

Read Sr. Fellow Elizabeth Wilkins’ bio here.

Read Sr. Fellow for Healthcare Ben Jolley’s bio here.

Read Sr. Fellow for Healthcare Hayden Rooke-Ley’s bio here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.