The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced today that Ed Feulner, President of The Heritage Foundation, will be awarded one of four 2012 Bradley Prizes later this June.
“Ed Feulner has elevated the influence of conservative research institutions since co-founding The Heritage Foundation in 1973 and serving as its president since 1977,” Michael Grebe, Bradley Foundation president and chief executive officer, said . “Under his guidance, The Heritage Foundation has become a bastion of ideas that are an integral part of the national conversation and that have shaped public policy.”
The other three recipients will be announced over the course of the next three weeks. Last year’s Bradley prize winners included former-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New York University Law School professor Richard Epstein, Harvard University professor Harvey Mansfield, and Carnegie Mellon University School of Business professor Allan Meltzer.
The award comes with a stipend of $250,000 and is given “to individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication who have made contributions of excellence in areas consistent” with the Bradley Foundation’s mission. The Bradley Foundation is “committed to preserving and defending the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise that has enabled the American nation and, in a larger sense, the entire Western world to flourish intellectually and economically.”
