Pericles Niarchos is the student programs manager at the Cato Institute. He worked as a formative executive board member at Students For Liberty, a hiring and professional development manager at the Institute for Humane Studies, a data analyst and cross-organization recruiter at the Charles Koch Foundation, and an activism manager at the Institute for Justice. Pericles has participated in competitive internship and associate management programs, helped build city-wide, grassroots-movements, appeared in national media outlets, created large-scale digital marketing efforts, and worked on detailed organization management reforms. In his work at the Cato Institute, Pericles applies his diverse professional background and network to identify and recruit those interested in a career advancing the ideas of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Outside the office, Pericles enjoys working on his company, 10Forward Technologies, and can be otherwise found combining his interests in science and engineering with diving, climbing, caving, and sailing.
Pericles holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from Drexel University.