TFA Advisory Council
- David All, President – David All Group
- Jay Ambrose, Contributing Columnist – Independence Institute; Columnist – Examiner
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Nigel Ashford, Senior Program Officer – Institute for Humane Studies
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Howard Baetjer, Professor of Economics – Towson University
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Whitney Ball, Cofounder and Executive Director – DonorsTrust
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Robert Barro, Professor of Economics – Harvard University
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Mara Batlin, Chair, Board of Directors – NGO Alliance
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Calvin Beisner, Founder – Cornwall Alliance for Environmental Stewardship
- Ralph Benko, Author – The Websters’ Dictionary; Principal – Capital City Partners
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Alberto G. Bochatey, Director – Institute of Bioethics, Pontifical Argentine Catholic University
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Peter Boettke, Deputy Director – James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy
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Norman Bowie, Professor of Philosophy – University of Minnesota
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Vince Breglio, Founder - VJBreglio and Associates Consulting
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James Buchanan, Professor Emeritus – George Mason University
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Cristina Burelli, Executive Director – Alliance for the Family
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John W. Cooper, Head of School – Elgin Academy
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Tyler Cowen, Director – James Buchanan Center for Political Economy
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Christopher Derry, Founder and President – Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions
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Ramon P. Diaz, former President, Central Bank of Uruguay
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Social and Political Ethics – University of Chicago, Divinity School
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Leonardo Facco, Publisher – Leonardo Facco Editore
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Steve Ferguson, Chairman of the Board and Executive Vice President – Cook Group Incorporated
- Richard Fink, President – Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation; Vice President – Koch Industries
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Todd Flanders, Headmaster, Providence Academy
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Juliana Geran Pilon, Research Professor of Politics & Culture – Institute of World Politics
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Mary Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law – Harvard University, Harvard Law School
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Stephen Goldsmith, Dan Paul Professor of Government – Harvard University, Kennedy School
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Grace Goodell, Professor – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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Mario Gabriel Griffa, former Editor, Apertura Magazine
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Kenneth Grubbs, Editorial Page Editor – San Francisco Examiner
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James Gwartney, Director – Florida State University, Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education
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Carl Helstrom III, Executive Director – JM Foundation
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Peter Hill, Professor of Economics and Business – Wheaton College
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Dan Klein, Professor of Economics – George Mason University
- Harald Klein, Director – Friedrich Naumann Foundation, International Politics
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Lawrence Kudlow, Founder and CEO - Kudlow and Company, LLC
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Chandran Kukathas, Chair in Political Theory – London School of Economics, Department of Government
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Deepak Lal, James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies – UCLA
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Winston Ling
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David Lips, Program Officer – Liberty Fund
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Joseph McPherson, former Headmaster – American School in Switzerland
- David R. Milroy
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Liu Kin Ming, Director of Special Projects – Hong Kong Economic Journal
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John Moore, former President – Grove City College, retired
- Roger Ream, President - The Fund for American Studies
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Jennifer Roback Morse, Research Fellow – Acton Institute
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Mohit Satyanand, Chairman of the Board – Liberty Institute
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Menlo Smith, CEO – Sunmark Capital Corp.
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Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy – American Enterprise Institute
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Herman Obermayer, Editor and Publisher – Northern Virginia Sun
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Ricardo Peirano, Director – El Observador
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Sam Peltzman, Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics – University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
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Daniel S. Peters, Chairman of the Board - Philanthropy Roundtable
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Richard Pipes, Baird Professor Emeritus of History – Harvard University, retired
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Lawrence W. Reed, President – Foundation for Economic Education
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Alfred Regnery, President – Regnery Publishing Inc.
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Jay Richards, Research Fellow and Director of Media – Acton Institute
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Mark Rodgers, Principal – Wedgwood Circle
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Claudia Rosales y Rosales, Executive Director – FUNDESA
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Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Public – Stanford University
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Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi – United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
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Vinay Samuel, Executive Director – Oxford Center for Mission Studies and The International Fellowship of Evangelical Mission Theologians
- Jeff Sandefer, Founder and Teacher - Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship
- Tracie Sharp, President – State Policy Network
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Charles Townes, Professor of Physics – UC Berkley
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Nancy Truitt, Senior Adviser – Tinker Foundation
- Richard Viguerie - Chairman – American Target Advertising; Chairman – ConservativeHQ.com
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Bernardo Villegas, Co-founder and Dean – University of Asia & the Pacific, School of Economics
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Damian von Stauffenberg, Founder and CEO – MicroRate
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Shalini Wadhwa, Founder – The Boss Magazine
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Michael Warder, Vice Chancellor – Pepperdine University
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Muhammad Yunus Dhaka, Founder – Grameen Bank
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Fareed Zakaria, Editor – Newsweek International
A subset of Advisory Board members participate as independent judges who help select the winners for the various prize categories.

