Rod Bordelon is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rod Bordelon’s extensive experience leading major state regulatory agencies and implementing reforms includes over 30 years in insurance, workers’ compensation and legislative affairs. Rod specializes in government agency regulatory and legislative advocacy, legal analysis, coalition building, and public speaking. His work includes successfully adopting medical cost containment guidelines and pharmacy formularies in workers’ compensation, and advocating free market reforms in all lines of insurance. An eleven-term gubernatorial appointee, Rod was appointed as the Public Insurance Counsel by Governor George W. Bush and reappointed by Governor Rick Perry, and appointed as the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation by Governor Perry. As Commissioner he implemented extensive reforms to the workers’ compensation system in Texas, resulting in significant market performance improvements and cost savings, a fifty percent drop in the rates of insurance premiums and increased performance within the regulatory agency. Rod is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and South Texas College of Law in Houston.