Natalie Gochnour serves as an associate dean in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and as director of the school’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. Previously, she served in the administrations of three Utah governors (Norman Bangerter, Mike Leavitt, and Olene Walker) and was a political appointee in the George W. Bush administration. She authors regular columns in Utah Business magazine and the Deseret News and cohosts the weekly radio program “Both Sides of the Aisle” on KCPW. She has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Utah.