Naomi Lopez is an adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and a Visiting Healthcare Policy Fellow at the State Policy Network. She is founder and principal of Nexus Policy Consulting and has held positions at the Goldwater Institute, Illinois Policy Institute, Pacific Research Institute, Institute for Socioeconomic Studies, and the Cato Institute. She is also co-founder, with Joe Grogan, of the AI in Healthcare Working Group.

Lopez has worked as a public policy consultant conducting research on federal and state health care programs, social and economic well-being, pension reform, federal and state health and welfare programs, barriers to entrepreneurship and tax expenditure programs.

A widely recognized healthcare expert, Lopez has written hundreds of scholarly articles, studies and commentaries. Her opinion articles have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Washington Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle and Insight. She has has appeared on ABC’s Politically Incorrect, PBS, CNN, CNBC, FOX News Channel and MSNBC. Lopez holds a B.A. in economics from Trinity University in Texas and an M.A. in government from Johns Hopkins University.