Tom Switzer is the incoming executive director of The Centre for Independent Studies, a Sydney-based classical liberal public-policy think tank. He is also the host of Between the Lines and Sunday Extra on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is a former senior associate at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre, editor of The Spectator Australia (2009–2014), opinion editor for The Australian (2001–2008), an editorial writer at the Australian Financial Review (1998–2001) and assistant editor at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC (1995–1998). In recent years, Switzer has also been a regular commentator for Sky News television, Fairfax Media and ABC radio and television.