Jo Kwong

Jo Kwong
Vice President for Institute Relations

Jo Kwong is the vice president for Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. For two decades, she has worked to promote and develop an international network of independent think tanks devoted to the ideas of liberty. Prior to joining Atlas in 1989, Kwong worked at free market organizations including the Institute for Humane Studies (Virginia); Capital Research Center (Washington, DC); and the Property and Environment Research Center (Montana).  Kwong received her doctorate in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Michigan and her undergraduate degree in biology at Brown University.  She began her career in the free-market, nonprofit sector with a postdoctoral program in Nonprofit Management at the Institute for Humane Studies under the mentorship of John Blundell, the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London).  She lectures internationally on topics ranging from free-market environmentalism; markets and morality, globalization and women, to think tank management and development.

Kwong’s policy books include Myths about Environmental Policy (Citizens for the Environment, Washington, D.C.), Protecting the Environment: Old Rhetoric, New Imperatives ( Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C.), and Market Environmentalism: Lessons for Hong Kong ( Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research, Hong Kong). She is a contributing author to The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ( Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco) and Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York).

In addition, Kwong has published in journals including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Urban Lands, and the American Land Forum, as well as in the popular press such as the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. On think tank management, she has authored two “how to” guides including “The Think Tank Primer: Strategies for Advancing Freedom Around the World” and ”Guidelines and Recommendations for Starting an Institute,” which are available at the Atlas website at www.Atlasnetwork.org