Joshua_D._Wright
Joshua D. Wright
American economist
Joshua Daniel Wright (born January 20, 1977) is an American economist and legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2013 to 2015.[2] At the time of his nomination, Wright was the fourth economist to serve as a commissioner of the FTC.[3]
He was a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School between 2004 and 2023, and was the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute.[4][5] He resigned from George Mason after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.[6]
Wright is a scholar in the fields of antitrust law, law and economics, and consumer protection, and was described in National Review to be "widely considered his generation's greatest mind on antitrust law."[7] He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, co-authored a casebook, and edited several book volumes in these fields. Wright has served as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review and senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal,[5] and in 2014 received the Paul M. Bator Award.[8]