Anthony Corrado is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is regarded as a leading expert in campaign finance.

Anthony Corrado is a Professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he teaches courses on American politics and political theory. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading experts on political finance, Corrado has received appointments as a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, Chair of the American Bar Association's Advisory Commission on Election Law, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan policy organization based in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of a number of academic advisory boards.

Dr. Corrado is the author or coauthor of seven books, including most recently, Inside the Campaign Finance Battle and Campaign Finance Reform: Beyond the Basics. He has published more than thirty articles on the financing of national elections, political party behavior, and campaign and election law. His previous professional activities include serving as the principal investigator for the Coalition to Promote Civic Dialogue on Campaign Finance Reform, a nonpartisan civic education project sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts; project director of the Committee for Economic Development’s Improving Judicial Selection program; and executive director of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Presidential Debates.

Dr. Corrado is a recipient of the American Political Science Association's Emerging Scholars Award and New England Political Science Association's John C. Donovan Prize, and has been recognized for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha. He is a frequent commentator on national politics, and has appeared regularly on National Public Radio, as well as on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CNN's Inside Politics, CBS Sunday Morning, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.