Richard (“R.J.”) Lyman is the Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center.  He also serves as Founding Director of Freedom for America, a nonprofit articulating fiscally responsible, socially tolerant public policies, and holds positions as Senior Advisor at ML Strategies, a Boston-based strategic consultancy, Managing Member of ELK Capital Partners, a multi-family housing investor, and Of Counsel to Mintz Levin, a national law firm. R.J. also provides governance oversight through present service on fiduciary boards, including as Clerk of the Woods Hole Research Center and Trustee of the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.

Lyman received his J.D. magna cum laude from Vermont Law School in 1993, his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College in 1986, and spent a year at Shrewsbury School in England.