Keith Lockitch

Keith Lockitch is the vice president of education and a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, overseeing the Institute’s educational programs.

He is a senior instructor for ARI’s Ayn Rand University (formerly Objectivist Academic Center) where he has been teaching distance-learning courses on written and oral communication skills for more than fifteen years. He also teaches about Ayn Rand’s novels and ideas in a variety of settings, from high school and college classrooms to ARI Campus.

As a senior fellow, Dr. Lockitch writes, speaks and edits for ARI, serving in particular as a senior editor for New Ideal. He specializes in the application of Ayn Rand’s philosophy to scientific topics, in particular to environmental issues such as energy and climate. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Orange County Register, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Canberra Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the science policy journal Energy and Environment. He is also a contributor to Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist’s Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.”

Dr. Lockitch received his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and prior to joining ARI he conducted postdoctoral research in relativistic astrophysics.