Chuck Albers

Mr. Albers is a private investor, residing in Sarasota FL, with nearly four decades of experience as a security analyst and equity mutual fund portfolio manager at the Guardian Park Avenue Fund and the Oppenheimer Main Street Fund. He is a director of Parents in Charge Foundation, Ivy League Club of Sarasota, and the Downtown Sarasota Condo Association. He studied Economics and Finance at Kenyon College and Columbia University.

John Blundell

Mr. Blundell is the Distinguished Senior Fellow of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, and author of Ladies for Liberty, Waging The War Of Ideas and Margaret Thatcher: Portrait Of An Iron Lady. He is a former President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation. Between 1993 and 2009, he served as Director General and Ralph Harris Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, described by Andrew Marr of the BBC as “undoubtedly the most influential think tank in modern British history.”

Timothy Browne

Mr. Browne is a private investor and independent consultant with experience in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He is a Director of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, and the recent past President of the Orinoco Foundation. He received a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Alejandro Chafuen

Dr. Chafuen became President of Atlas in 1991, and was elected to its Board in 2009. He joined Atlas in 1985 and worked alongside Sir Antony Fisher. He is also the president and founder of the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research. He is the author of Faith and Liberty, which has been published in Spain, Poland and Italy. He serves on the boards of the Chase Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and the Fraser Institute. He recently became a trustee for Grove City College, PA.

Dan Grossman

Mr. Grossman is the Chairman of the Board for Atlas. He spent his working career as the founder and owner of various private businesses. He was formerly the Chairman of the Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, NY. He graduated from Miami University in Oxford Ohio with a Degree in Economics, and from Columbia University in New York, NY with an MBA in Finance. Mr. Grossman resides in Washington, D.C.

George Pearson

Mr. Pearson worked for nearly three decades for the Koch family as manager of various Koch Foundations and for Koch Industries in various corporate positions including Director of Public Affairs. He is involved in real estate development and investment as a principal in Industrial Development Investors, LLC. Mr. Pearson has served as officer or director of various non-profit organizations, including the Institute for Humane Studies, the Cato Institute, and the Kansas Policy Institute.

Andrea Millen Rich

Mrs. Rich is the President of Center for Independent Thought, a non-profit organization whose current projects include Stossel in the Classroom, the annual Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Cause of Civil Liberties, and the Roy A. Childs Jr. Fund for Independent Scholars. She headed Laissez Faire Books for 23 years until her retirement in 2005.

René Scull

Mr. Scull has extensive international experience, having worked in Asia as Vice President of Philip Morris; in South America, as Chairman of the Board of United Distillers Venezuela & Chairman of the Board of Abal Hermanos in Uruguay; & in Central America, as Managing Director of Tabacalera El Salvador. Mr. Scull has a MA from the Escuela Contemporanea de Humanidades in Madrid. He also completed an Advanced Management Program in the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

William Sumner

Mr. Sumner has been a part of Atlas from its founding in 1981. He started as treasurer, and has been a director for more than a quarter century and served as chairman of the board for 20 of those years. He is a director of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a trustee emeritus of the University of San Francisco.

Linda Whetstone

Mrs. Whetstone is the daughter of Atlas’s founder, the late Sir Antony Fisher. In addition to her role on the Atlas Board of Directors, she serves as Chairman of the International Policy Network (UK), and as a member of the Boards of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Mont Pelerin Society. Mrs. Whetstone runs a small business in England with her husband and writes on agricultural and development issues.

Ambassador Curtin Winsor, Jr.

Ambassador Winsor has served as Special Assistant and Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Bob Dole; as Washington Representative of the Chase Manhattan Bank; and, under President Reagan, Ambassador to Costa Rica. Subsequently, he served as a Senior Consultant to the Department of Defense, and President of the Legislative Studies Institute. Winsor built and has owned the American Chemical Services Company of Marmet, WV, since 1980. He received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from the School of International Service at American University.

Board of Overseers:

Stuart Chase
Derwood Chase
Barry Conner
Sean Fieler
Pamela Hoiles
Ron Manners
Gerry Ohrstrom
Luis Perez
Borut Prah
Nadine Prah
Lauren Templeton
John Basil Utley
Mariela Vicini