Oren Cass
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Cass in 2025 | |
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| Born | 1983 (age 41–42) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Williams 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."