Edward Conard

Who is Edward Conard?

Edward W. "Ed" Conard is an American businessman, bestselling author and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a former Managing Director for Bain Capital, LLC - having held this position from 1993 until 2007. He headed Bain’s New York office from 2000 onward. Previously, Mr. Conard was a Director at Wasserstein Perella from 1990 to 1992.

In 2012, Edward Conard published Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong, which was a bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list. Google's end-of-year "Zeitgeist" report ranked Edward Conard the tenth most searched for author on Google in 2012.