Kevin D. Roberts, PhD

KEVIN D. ROBERTS was named president of The Heritage Foundation in October 2021. In September 2023, Roberts was named president of Heritage Action for America and serves both organizations in a joint role.

Roberts previously served as the CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), an Austin-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute and the largest state think tank in the nation. A lifelong educator, Roberts earned his PhD in American history from the University of Texas. In 2006, after several years of teaching history at the collegiate level, Roberts left the university to found John Paul the Great Academy, a co-ed, K-12 Catholic liberal arts school in Lafayette, Louisiana. Roberts served as the academy’s president and headmaster for seven years.

In 2013, he resigned from the academy to become president of Wyoming Catholic College. Under his leadership, the college adopted a policy of refusing to accept federal student loans and grants, lest it be forced to violate Catholic tenets. This independent stance led The New York Times to describe the school as being full of “cowboy Catholics.”

In addition to his doctorate, Roberts holds a master’s degree in history from Virginia Tech and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Roberts and his wife have four children.