Wendell Cox is a senior fellow at Unleash Prosperity and principal of Demographia (St. Louis, MO-IL).

He specializes in demographics, urban policy and transportation. He was appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, which oversaw highway and transit policy for the nation’s most populous county. Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich appointed him to the Amtrak Reform Council.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (Winnipeg) and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman University. He served as a visiting professor of transport at the Conservatoire National Des Arts Et Metiers (a national university) in Paris and has presented guest lectures at Tongi University (Shanghai), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Sydney, the University of Toronto, the University of Paris, and the University of Cairo. He earned a BA in Government from California State University, Los Angeles and an MBA from Pepperdine University