Oren Cass

Oren Cass
Cass in 2025
Personal details
Born1983 (age 4142)
Political partyRepublican
EducationWilliams College (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Oren M. Cass (born 1983) is an American public policy commentator and political advisor. Since 2024, he has been chief economist at American Compass, a conservative think tank which he founded in 2020.

He previously worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012. According to a 2015 article in Politico, he is a "general policy impresario of the emerging conservative consensus on fighting poverty." From 2015 to 2019, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He authored a book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. In February 2020, Cass established American Compass, an organization aimed at the question of "what the post-Trump right-of-center is going to be."