Caleb Watney

Caleb Watney is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress (IFP), a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank that turns ideas from progress studies into policy. He runs IFP's work on metascience, high-skilled immigration, and emerging technology, hunting for the policy levers that could rebuild American state capacity and speed up the rate of scientific breakthroughs. Before IFP he led innovation policy at the Progressive Policy Institute and was a tech-policy fellow at R Street and a graduate research fellow at Mercatus.