Chris Griswold is the policy director at American Compass, a Washington, DC think tank that has become “a policy nerve center for the party’s younger, more populist generation” (New York Times), a “slaughterhouse for Republican sacred cows” (The Economist), “ground zero in a fierce conservative clash over Trump-era economics” (Politico), and “the most influential New Right group on Capitol Hill” (Wall Street Journal). He was previously a senior advisor to U.S. Senator Marco Rubio.

Griswold has held research fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, and is currently a non-resident fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo.  He regularly writes commentary and analysis for the New York Times, National Affairs, National Review, Comment, Newsweek and many other publications, and is a contributing writer at Commonplace magazine. Prior to his career in public policy, Griswold helped launch and scale a nationwide youth development nonprofit in South Africa. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary.