Alejandro Antonio Chafuen is managing director, international, of the Acton Institute. He is past president of the Atlas Network. A U.S. citizen, born in Argentina in 1954, and a graduate of the Argentine Catholic University and Grove City College, Chafuen received his Doctorate under Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, a disciple of Ludwig von Mises and…

Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute. During the 1970s he worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy in Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute. Butler is author of books on the pioneering economists Milton Friedman,…

Robert Lawson is holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and is director of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business. He previously taught at Auburn University, Capital University, and Shawnee State University. Dr. Lawson is a founding co-author of the…

Benjamin Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business. He is the North American Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, past president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and a senior fellow with the Independent Institute. He…

Dr. Roberta Q. Herzberg is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and previously held faculty and administrative positions at Utah State University, Indiana University, Bloomington, and the John Templeton Foundation. Her research and teaching focus on political economy, public choice,…

Mónica Río Nevado de Zelaya has a PhD in Economics and is dean of the School of Economic Sciences at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala City, where she is also a professor of business and entrepreneurship. She is director of the Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center at UFM, director of GEM research for Guatemala, cofounder of the…

Nils Karlson is the founding president and CEO of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an economist and political scientist, professor in Political Science at Linköping University, working in the fields of institutional economics, political theory, public choice, and constitutional political economy. His research is focused on the interaction between politics, markets and…

Brad Lips is the Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Network, which increases opportunity and prosperity by strengthening a global network of independent free-market think tanks.  Prior to joining Atlas Network in 1998, Lips conducted equity research for Smith Barney Inc. and policy research for the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Earlier in his career, he was…

Linda Whetstone is chairman of the Atlas Network and Network for a Free Society and a board member of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Islam and Liberty Network. She was previously on the board of the Mont Pelerin Society and co-organiser of MPS meetings in Nairobi in 2007 and Istanbul in 2011. She has…

Sanford “Sandy” Ikeda is professor of Economics and coordinator of the Economics Program at Purchase College of the State University of New York, and a research fellow at New York University. He is on the Board of Directors of The Economic Freedom Institute, Cosmos + Taxis, and The Center for the Living City. He has…