Mr. Sheffer is the Counselor to the president of The Heritage Foundation. He has been affiliated with The Heritage Foundation since 1982. Prior to that, he served as Special Assistant to the Lt. Governor of New York in 1979. In 1980, he served on the campaign of then-candidate Ronald Regan and then on the presidential transition team until the inauguration of the President in 1981. Mr. Sheffer went on to serve in the Reagan White House on the National Security Council staff from 1981 to 1982.