internships-aei
Spring Intern: Media Relations
Overview Intern in the press office of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a distinguished Washington, DC, think tank. Learn about strategic media communication, track our scholars’ research, and familiarize yourself with the media landscape. AEI is a great place to learn about the interaction
Spring Intern: Economic Policy
Overview The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks an in-person intern to provide research and administrative support to the Economic Policy Studies department. The economic policy intern will have the opportunity to do quantitative analysis, background research, fact-checking, and editing for a
Spring Intern: Editing Services
Overview The Editing Services department at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is responsible for editing and coordinating publications, event materials, and other projects and assisting with the promotion of scholars’ work. An intern in this department will assist team members with copyediting
Spring Intern: FREE Initiative
Overview Founded by AEI scholar Ian Rowe, the FREE Initiative champions the vital roles of family, religion, education, and entrepreneurship in equipping the rising generation of young Americans. FREE’s mission is to help young people recognize and exercise their personal agency through these four i
Fall Intern: Communications and Marketing Systems
Overview The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks a communications and marketing systems intern to assist with promoting AEI’s research to its constituents. This includes using our automated email marketing system to prepare and send articles and newsletters, using our customer-relationship man
Spring Intern: US Foreign Policy and Communications
Overview The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Distinguished Senior Fellow Danielle Pletka and Senior Fellow Marc A. Thiessen in research tasks for regular opinion columns, long-term projects, and events. Typical research will relate to the Middle East, China, America’s r
Spring Intern: Military Strategy and US Defense Budge
Overview American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Mackenzie Eaglen specializes in defense strategy, defense budgets, military readiness, and the defense industrial base. Interns on the military strategy and US defense budget team will assist with compiling and preparing background on issues of co
Spring Intern: Demographics and Political Economy
Overview The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern who will assist Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy. Dr. Eberstadt focuses on global demographic trends, human capital, and economic development, with a current emphasis on China, Russia, and developing nations. He
Spring Intern: Critical Threats Project - Iran and Middle East
Overview The Critical Threats Project (CTP), led by Senior Fellow Frederick W. Kagan, tracks and analyzes current and emerging challenges to American national security in concert with its partner organization the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Interns will support analysis of the ongoing Isra
Spring Intern: Critical Threats Project - Communications and Operations
Overview The Critical Threats Project (CTP), led by Senior Fellow Frederick W. Kagan, tracks and analyzes current and emerging threats to American national security. The intern will fulfill operations projects and tasks for the team, gaining skills transferrable to many professions. The intern will
Spring Intern: Critical Threats Project - Communications and Operations
Spring Intern: Critical Threats Project – Africa
Overview The Critical Threats Project (CTP), led by Senior Fellow Frederick W. Kagan, tracks and analyzes current and emerging challenges to American national security. The internship will work with Africa Team Lead Liam Karr to focus on supporting the project’s research efforts on US national secur
Spring Intern: Asian Economics
Overview The Asian economics interns at the American Enterprise Institute will conduct research in support of Senior Fellow Derek Scissors. The Asian economics portfolio includes researching and media monitoring of Chinese outward investment and corporate activity. Intern duties will include fact-ch
Spring Intern: Asian Securities
Overview The Asian securities intern at the American Enterprise Institute will conduct research in support of Senior Fellow Dan Blumenthal. The Asian securities portfolio focuses on US defense policy and security issues in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s military modernization, Chinese coercion
Spring Intern: Office of the President
Overview The office of the president at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks an intern for the coming semester. Robert Doar, AEI president, is a former social-service administrator whose primary scholarly interest is poverty. He is an active and respected participant in the ongoing national
Spring Intern: Events
Overview The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Events team ensures that the more than 1,200 public and private events held annually at AEI’s headquarters are executed flawlessly. AEI scholars and staff turn to the Events team to maximize the quality of all aspects of events, including setup, audie
Spring Intern: Economic Innovation and Editing
Overview The American Enterprise Institute seeks an intern for the AEIdeas blog. The intern will have two primary responsibilities: (1) Assist with administrative maintenance of AEIdeas, such as by editing, formatting posts, and searching for applicable media (photos, videos, charts, etc.) and (2) a
Spring Intern: Development
Overview The Development department at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is the organization’s fundraising apparatus, attracting and managing financial support for all AEI initiatives and operations. AEI is supported by individuals, foundations, and corporations that share AEI’s core values—fr
Spring Intern: Communications and Marketing Systems
Overview The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) seeks a communications and marketing systems intern to assist with promoting AEI’s research to its constituents. This includes using our automated email marketing system to prepare and send articles and newsletters, using our customer-relationship man
Spring Intern: Academic Programs
Overview Academic Programs connects undergraduate institutions, faculty, and students across the country to the work of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the broader public policy world. The Academic Programs intern is responsible for supporting the planning and execution of program events
Spring Intern: Coalitions
Overview The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Coalitions team helps AEI scholars connect their research with audiences inside and outside Washington, DC. We focus on getting scholarly work from the website to the community. Interns must have a startup mentality and an ability to identify new ways