Tom Clougherty is the Executive Director and Ralph Harris Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, [1] a free market think tank based in London. He was previously the Head of Tax at the Centre for Policy Studies [2] and editorial director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. He was also managing editor of the Cato Journal . Clougherty previously served as executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, a free market think tank based in London. Clougherty holds a B.A. in law from the University of Cambridge. [3] [4]
Clougherty has appeared regularly on the television network CNBC to discuss economic issues relevant to the United Kingdom. [5]
Clougherty has also been research director at the Globalisation Institute, and is a senior fellow at The Cobden Centre, an Austrian economics think tank. [6] Before joining Cato in February 2015, Clougherty was managing editor at the Reason Foundation.