Dr. Ashley Nunes is a public policy scholar with interests in energy economics, labor markets and regulatory reform. His work has been funded by - among others - the National Institutes of Health, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Ashley holds academic appointments at Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and his doctoral dissertation examined the scientific merit of raising workforce retirement ages.

Ashley has written for numerous outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. His work has been cited in congressional testimony and been covered by the New York Times, The Economist, the BBC, and The Financial Times among others.

Ashley's current work explores the economics of innovation. He has testified before Congress and executed policy analysis for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.