Stone Washington is a research fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Advancing Capitalism. At CEI, his research primarily focuses on financial developments in the market, ESG investing and federal regulation of the economy. He is also a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center.

Prior to his current role at CEI, Washington served as a trainee with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Examinations. Before this, he worked as a research assistant for the Manhattan Institute, assisting several Senior Fellows with policy projects in the areas of legal policy, public-sector unions and higher education.