Phillip Longman is the policy director of the Open Markets Institute. In addition to helping set strategic and editorial direction for the organization, he contributes research and writing in specific policy areas, including the role of monopoly and financialization in health care, transportation, and media markets. Longman is the author of numerous books on public policy, including Best Care Anywhere, currently in its third edition, which chronicles the quality transformation of the Veterans Health Administration in the 1990s and applies its lessons for reforming the U.S. health care system as a whole. His work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New York Times Magazine, Politica Exterior, Der Spiegel, and World Politics Review. He has also served as a senior editor at the Washington Monthly.

Longman was formerly a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report. He also taught health care policy and policy writing for seven years at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015 he was appointed by Senate President Harry Reid to serve on the federal Commission on Care, which was charged with setting a strategic direction for the future of veterans’ health care.

Longman has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award, and the top prize for investigative journalism from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

He is a graduate of Oberlin College and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Sandy, and son, Sam.