Preston Cooper
Senior Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Preston Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his work focuses on higher education return on investment, student loans, and higher education reform. Before joining AEI in his current role, Cooper was a senior fellow in higher education policy at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a research analyst at AEI, and a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
His work has appeared in the popular press, including in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, RealClearPolicy, and National Review. Cooper has a Ph.D. from George Mason University (VA) and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College (PA).
