Oren Cass
American political advisor (1983-)
Oren M. Cass (born 1983) is an American public policy commentator and political advisor. He works 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."
Early life and education
Cass is Jewish, and grew up outside Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were both immigrants from Israel into the United States. He attended Williams College, where he received a B.A. in political economy.
Career
After graduating from Williams College, Cass joined Bain & Company as an associate consultant, where he worked in the firm's Boston and New Delhi offices. He took a six-month leave to work on the Mitt Romney 2008 presidential campaign, in which Romney was defeated in the presidential primary.
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