Robert L. Bradley Jr.

Robert L. Bradley Jr. (born June 17, 1955) is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, and the author of several books on energy economics. He is also an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London.

Bradley grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from The Kinkaid School in 1973. He received a B.A. in economics from Rollins College, where he was awarded the S. Truman Olin award for the top student in economics. He attended Rollins on a full athletic scholarship and was captain and MVP of the men's tennis team in 1977. He went on to receive an M.A. in economics from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in political economy from International College, Los Angeles, where the Chair of his dissertation committee was Murray Rothbard. He then spent the summer of 1977 in residence at the Institute for Humane Studies in Menlo Park, California, studying with Austrian-school economists, including Rothbard and Nobel Laureate F. A. Hayek.

Bradley spent nearly 20 years in the business world, including 16 years at Enron, where for the last seven years he was corporate director for public policy analysis and speechwriter for Kenneth L. Lay. His opposition to the company's so-called "green" energy policy is recounted on his web site PoliticalCapitalism.org.

He has been a senior research fellow at the University of Houston and at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2002 for his work on free market approaches to energy sustainability.

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