Lawrence J. Mone served as President of the Manhattan Institute from 1995 until his retirement in 2019. He joined the Institute in 1982, serving as a public policy specialist, program director and vice president before being named the Institute’s fourth president.  

Under his leadership the Manhattan Institute sponsored and disseminated research on such topics as tax and economic policy, education, welfare reform and crime. The Institute expanded its work with civic leaders in New York and across the country to promote free-market solutions to urban policy problems, and also broadened its focus on the American justice system, examining issues like employment law and class action suits.  

A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, Mr Mone taught high school history in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for several years before earning a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.  

Mr Mone has been a member of the Board of Governors since 2025.