Richard “R. J.” Lyman is an attorney, Libertarian Party campaign operative, and senior fellow at the nominally libertarian Niskanen Center. Lyman is the founding director of Freedom for America, a center-right public policy nonprofit; senior adviser to the strategic consultancy ML Strategies; a managing member of investing firm ELK Capital Partners; clerk of Woods Role Research Center, an environmentalist research group; and counsel to the national law firm Mintz Levin.