Eli Dourado is an economist and regulatory hacker living in Washington, DC, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. 

Before joining CGO, he spent 2+ years as head of global policy at Boom, a company creating a supersonic airliner. Before that, he was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of its Technology Policy Program. 

He has a PhD in economics from George Mason University.