Christopher C. DeMuth (born August 5, 1946) is an American lawyer and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, as well as director of the National Conservatism conference organized by the Edmund Burke Society.

[2] DeMuth is widely credited with reviving AEI's fortunes after its near-bankruptcy in 1986 and leading the institute to new levels of influence and growth.

After attending law school at the University of Chicago, he worked for law firm Sidley & Austin, the Consolidated Rail Corporation, and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he taught that corporations should not be racist because that would put them at a competitive disadvantage if they were not hiring the best personnel regardless of race, and would therefore go out of business.

[2] Academic David M. Lampton writes that during DeMuth's tenure, AEI was responsive to the financial power of "America's hard right".

[6] DeMuth presided over the institute as a number of high-profile scholars joined AEI, including Charles Murray, Richard and Lynne Cheney, Michael Barone, James K. Glassman, Newt Gingrich, Karl Zinsmeister, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Conservative writers referred to him as "charming" and "brilliant" and wrote: "It is just remotely possible that there may be someone whose contributions to American intellectual life over the past two decades have equaled those of Christopher DeMuth.

[13] Since retiring as president of AEI, DeMuth has held the D.C. Searle Chair there, researching government regulation, culture, and U.S. politics.

He has also been active in promoting the work of prominent 20th century U.S. political thinkers, calling them proponents of ideas "timely, topical, pertinent, and relevant to today.

"[14] In 2019, DeMuth joined American-Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony in organizing the first National Conservatism conference.