[3] Feulner attended Immaculate Conception High School in Elmhurst, Illinois and Regis University in Denver, where he graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in English in 1963.

[7] Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Feulner began his career as an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then called the Center for Strategic Studies.

Additionally, the foundation's policy reports and papers were published ahead of related legislation rather than after it had been passed, as most think tanks did at the time.

[11] Under his leadership, Heritage ultimately grew to 250 employees and, with annual income of about $80 million[10] and a donor pool of about 600,000, became one of the world's largest think tanks.

[14] The Heritage Foundation responded by denying any conflict of interest, stating that its views on Malaysia changed following the country's cooperation with the U.S. after the September 11 attacks,[15] and the Malaysian government "moving in the right economic and political direction.

The index measures individual countries' policies in the broad areas of rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open markets.

[22][23] Among other executive and advisory roles, Feulner was president of the Philadelphia Society from 1982 to 1983[24] and from 2013 to 2014, and is a past director of the Council for National Policy, the Acton Institute, and George Mason University.

Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy from 1982 to 1991, a consultant on domestic policy to U.S. president Ronald Reagan, and an adviser to several government departments and agencies.

[26][27] In 2009, Karl Rove, writing in Forbes, listed him as the sixth-most powerful conservative in Washington, D.C.[28] Fuelner has been awarded eleven honorary degrees, and has received honors from the governments of Taiwan, South Korea, and the Czech Republic.