Edward Ring is the director of water and energy policy with the California Policy Center, a nonpartisan public policy research institute which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a regular contributor to American Greatness, National Review, Pacific Research Institute, City Journal, and California Globe.
In 2021 he was the founder and leader of the “More Water Now” campaign, which culminated in the drafting of the Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022, which the campaign attempted to qualify for California’s November 2022 state ballot.
Ring is a prolific writer on the topics of political reform and sustainable economic development and the author of three books, Fixing California (2021), The Future is Now (2022), and The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California (2022). His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, Real Clear Politics, The American Mind, Cal Matters, City Journal, and other media outlets. Ring has an undergraduate degree in political science from UC Davis, and an MBA in finance from USC.
