John Berlau is director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Berlau has written about the impact of public policy on entrepreneurship and capital markets for many publications including the Washington Examiner, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, and National Review. He has been cited or quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times.  He is a frequent guest on many radio and television programs including CNBC's "The Call" and "Closing Bell" MSNBC's "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson and , and the "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on Fox News.

Berlau previously was Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily and a staff writer for Insight magazine, published by The Washington Times. In 2002, he recevied Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism from Washington's National Press Club. He was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2003.

Berlau graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1994 with degrees in journalism and economics.

He is the author of the book Eco-Freaks (Nelson Current, 2006), which has been in Amazon's top 100 best-selling non-fiction books.