Henry Olsen

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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Polic Center, is a globally recognized expert on American elections and policy as well as global populism. His 20-year record of highly accurate U.S. Presidential and Congressional election predictions includes calling the 2024 U.S. Presidential race for Donald Trump while noting Trump could win the popular vote – an outcome that shocked most analysts. He also follows and regularly comments on elections around the world, especially in Europe and the Americas.

He writes a weekly column on the U.S. midterms for the Washington Post, and biweekly articles on American domestic and foreign policy for National Review Online and the Washington Examiner. He writes biweekly about the U.S.-European relationship and European politics for Brussels Signal. Mr. Olsen’s work has also been published in the New York Times, POLITICO, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and many other leading publications.

Mr. Olsen is a frequently requested speaker on U.S. politics and the rise of global populism both within the United States and in many countries in Europe and Asia. He hosts two regular podcasts – Beyond the Polls, which examines U.S. politics every week, and Conservative Crossroads, which explores policy differences among American conservatives every other week. He also teaches in the D.C. Graduate Program at Hillsdale College, and has previously taught at Villanova University, Arizona State University, and the Catholic University of America.

Mr. Olsen is the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism and the co-author, with University of New Hampshire Professor Dante J. Scala, of The Four Faces of the Republican Party.

He holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

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