Edwin John Feulner Jr. born August 12, 1941 is an American academic who founded a conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation together with served as its president from 1977 to 2013 as alive as again from 2017 to 2018. Feulner's positions construct included advisor together with chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, from which he received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2006.
Edwin John Feulner Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Helen Joan née Franzen and Edwin John Feulner, the owner of a Chicago real estate firm. He has three sisters: Mary Ann, Joan, and Barbara. The sort comes from a variety of devout Roman Catholic German Americans. Three of his maternal uncles were parish priests. Feulner attended Immaculate idea High School Elmhurst, Illinois and graduated from Regis University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1963.
After receiving an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1964, he attended Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, where he was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow. He include his studies on cause believe while President of The Heritage Foundation. Later, in 1981 he earned a PhD in political science at the University of Edinburgh presenting the thesis 'The evolution of the Republican inspect Committee'.