Peter Reichard

Strategic Advisor

With experience as a business journalist and in the public policy field, Peter Reichard brings wide-ranging expertise in nonprofit management and economic, government, and workforce issues. Working in the reform arena, he has gone toe-to-toe with union leaders seeking to smother improvements that would benefit public employees.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Peter worked primarily as an editor, first at a major daily newspaper and then as a managing editor of a business weekly. He also taught at the high school and college levels. Over the past 30 years, he has published continually and in a variety of local and national publications. His body of work runs the gamut from economic issues and government reform to reporting from a war zone in the former Yugoslavia.

In 2002, Peter moved into the good government arena, fighting government waste and corruption as Director of Research at the Bureau of Governmental Research in New Orleans. In 2017, the Utah Foundation named him President, and he transformed the organization, yielding unprecedented productivity, public esteem, and financial strength. He has produced national award-winning reports on civil service, education, economic development incentives, tax fairness, public contracting, and employee compensation reform. He joined CIE in December 2022.

Peter has delivered addresses on policy issues and civic life in local, state, and national forums. He has served on various boards and commissions focused on business, economics, and education. He also served as President of the Governmental Research Association. He holds degrees from Loyola University (BA) and Fordham University (MA), where his research focused on America’s founding and early years. His devotion to the founding principles inspires his work for CIE, an organization that reflects the founding fathers’ commitment to protecting individuals from coercive power structures.