# Will Wilkinson **URL:** --- Will Wilkinson is director of government affairs at Persona. He was vice president for research at the Niskanen Center, overseeing the Center’s research and publications. Previously, Wilkinson was a US politics correspondent for _The Economist_. He was also a research fellow at the Cato Institute, where he wrote on an array of topics, including Social Security reform, the policy implications of happiness research, and the political economy of inequality. Wilkinson was also a founding editor of _Cato Unbound_.