Catherine Windels

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Catherine Barr Windels is a former Reagan admistration official, lobbyist and think tank networker. Windels 'served as Senior Director for Policy Stakeholder Relations for Pfizer Inc., for whom she acted as a liaison with policy think tanks around the world. During a 22 year career at Pfizer, she helped create new think tanks and networks of think tanks in Europe, Canada, Africa and Asia, as well as working closely with many leading institutes in the US.'[1] Paul Belien of the conservative Brussels Journal describes Windels as the 'godmother of think tanks', he describes how, in her role at Pfizer she was instrumental in setting up several think tank networks:

American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which has a philosophy of supporting young people with new initiatives through the good care of Catherine Windels.[2]


Reagan too conservative?

Windels claims that she intially thought Ronald Reagan was too Conservative to be elected:

"I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I was not a Reagan supporter in 1976 or in the primaries in 1980," confesses Cathy Windels, a New York pharmaceutical executive who works with think tanks that promote market-based healthcare reform.
"My Dad told me for years that Reagan was going to be president, and a great one. I thought he was too conservative to win," Windels adds. After a stint at the Heritage Foundation, she joined the Reagan administration in 1982.
"By being inside and seeing that President Reagan was such a great leader, I realized my Dad had been right, and I had been wrong. This guy was a once-in-a-lifetime president," Windels says. "What was impressive was that, even at a relatively low level, all we political appointees knew exactly what we were supposed to be doing, and that the mission came from what one colleague called (affectionately) 'The stubborn old man in the White House.'"[3]

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  1. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  2. Paul Belein, The Brussels Capitalist Ball 2006, The Brussels Journal, 26-February-2006, Accessed 27-May-2010
  3. Deroy Murdock Generation Reagan: He inspired many of us. National Review Online, June 14, 2004, 8:39 a.m.
  4. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  5. Rightweb Jeffrey Bell, accessed 13 May 2010
  6. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  7. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  8. Cached version of American Council on Germany About', created 30 April 2010, accessed 12 May 2010
  9. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  10. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010
  11. Stockholm Network, About Us, Stockholm Network, Web Archive 01-April-2002, Accessed 09-May-2010
  12. Stockholm Network, Patrons and Directors, Stockholm Network, 02-March-2005, Accessed via web archive 10-May-2010
  13. Stockholm Network, Directors and Patrons, Stockholm Network, 01-January-2006, Accessed via web archive 10-May-2010
  14. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 may 2010
  15. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 may 2010
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  20. Galen Institute Officers and Trustees, accessed 12 May 2010