Bartlett Cleland
Director of the Center for Technology Freedom, Institute for Policy Innovation
Bartlett Cleland is the Director of the IPI Center for Technology Freedom at the Institute for Policy Innovation.
The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is a free-market "think tank" dedicated to promoting lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a smaller, less-intrusive federal government. IPI currently focuses on tax cuts, long-term tax reform, educational choice, high-tech and Internet issues, and the rollback of harmful and counterproductive regulations. IPI is a public foundation, supported wholly by contributions from individuals, businesses, and other non-profit foundations. IPI neither solicits nor accepts funds from any government agency, and is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Founded in 2000, the IPI Center for Technology Freedom fundamentally supports a free market ideology. The only way that technology will succeed in meeting the needs of our electronic economy is to allow the industry to remain free of undue regulations.
Bartlett's responsibilities include oversight of all technology and related studies, including intellectual property, communications policy, Internet taxation, as well as technology and regulation. He currently serves on the Internet Education Foundation Board of Directors, which involves working closely with the Internet Caucus and such projects as GetNetWise, a project to assist parents in understanding the Internet and how to protect children on-line.
Bartlett began his professional career in the human resources field with Lee Hecht Harrison as a consultant for executive outplacement. Volunteering for many political campaigns, he joined the Ashcroft for Senate campaign as a research assistant in 1994. He went to Washington, D.C. in 1995 to work for Senator John Ashcroft, serving as the Senator's technology counsel from 1996 - 1998. At the same time, he held various management positions ultimately serving two years as operations director. From 1998 to 2000, he worked for Americans for Tax Reform as technology and policy counsel, and advised Commissioner Grover G. Norquist on the Advisory Committee on Electronic Commerce. From 2000 to 2005, he served as the Associate General Counsel and VP, Software, at the Information Technology Association of America.
Bartlett graduated from Millikin University with a B.S. in philosophy and business administration. He received his Masters of Business Administration, as well as his law degree with a specialization in international and comparative law, from St. Louis University. He is admitted to the Missouri bar.
Appearances
- Taxing the Internet: How Long Should the Moratorium Last? June 21, 2007
- Internet Tax Simplification: Is It Really That Simple? June 5, 2003
Biography last updated June 2007