John Locke Staff, Fellows, & Scholars - Biographies

Joseph Coletti

Email: jcoletti@johnlocke.org

Joseph Coletti is Fiscal and Health Care Policy Analyst at the John Locke Foundation. In addition to the biennial Freedom Budget, he has authored reports on the state’s spend-and-tax budgeting cycle, better ways to fund roads and schools, the earned-income tax credit, business incentives, tax-increment financing, government employee compensation, and an early look (in July 2005) at the infamous feasibility study behind the Randy Parton Theatre in Roanoke Rapids.


In health policy, Coletti has examined Medicaid spending, offered ways to fund the state’s High Risk Pool without new taxes. He has also written on consumer-based health reforms, long-term care, and the state’s mental health system.


His writing has been in publications such as Health Care News, Global Corporate Xpansion, and the Leland Tribune. He has spoken at health care and tax policy conferences, civic groups across the state, and appeared on radio and television including WUNC’s The State of Things and CNBC Asia.


Before joining the Locke Foundation, Coletti was the Director of Policy and Communications for the U.S. – Japan Business Council in Washington, D.C., where he helped Fortune 1000 companies operating work with the U.S. and Japanese governments. He also led marketing research and forecasting projects with J.D. Power and Associates in Detroit and Tokyo.


Coletti received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He lives in Cary with his wife and their two children.

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