Liberty Forum

Liberty Forum


Please Note: Atlas has moved the annual Liberty Forum event to November.

Atlas Liberty Forum

mayflowerhotelNovember 9-10, 2010
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Atlas’s annual Liberty Forum has become a ”must-attend” event for members of the international think tank community. Started in 2001, the Liberty Forum provides attendees with a chance to meet and learn from peers who share their passion for the ideas of liberty, from all of the world.

Atlas hosts friends from over 50 countries and 120 public policy organizations. Program sessions address key policy topics, and strategies for being more effective in running organizations that aim to improve the climate for public policy ideas.  At the Liberty Forum, Atlas announces the winners of its Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award at the Fisher Memorial Dinner as well as the years Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grantees.

georgewillThe Liberty Forum  will now be held annually in early November, in conjunction with Atlas’s annual Freedom Dinner celebration. The event will be held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. November 9-10th, 2010. George Will, syndicated Columnist will provide the Keynote Speech for the event.
George F. Will is a twice-weekly columnist for The Post, writing about foreign and domestic politics and policy. His column appears on Thursdays and Sundays.Will began his syndicated column with The Post on Jan. 1, 1974. Two years later he started his back-page Newsweek column. Will serves as a contributing analyst with ABC News and has been a regular member of ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday mornings since the show began in 1981. His books include “Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy” (1992), “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” (1989), and “Statecraft as Soulcraft” (1983).

Will was the recipient of a 1978 National Headliners Award for his “consistently outstanding special features columns” appearing in Newsweek. A column on New York City’s finances earned him a 1980 Silurian Award for Editorial Writing. In 1985, The Washington Journalism Review named Will “Best Writer, Any Subject.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1977.

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