• The Chilean Presidential Election- commentary by Alex Chafuen, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, with up to date analysis by phone from Cristián Larroulet at Libertad y Desarollo in Chile.
• Ray Walser- Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America, Heritage Foundation. Topic: the recent elections in Honduras.
• Brigadier General Supnet- Defense Attaché, Philippine Embassy, Topic: the recent massacre in Mindanao, Philippines.

Speakers this month included

• Eudardo Massieu- CEDICE (Venezuela), “A Campaign for Liberty”
• Bernhard Adamec- Europainstitut (Austria), “The Free Market Movement in Austria“
• Victoria Stokova-  Herrnando de Soto Fellow, Property Rights Alliance, “International Property Rights Index“

Audio of the event is available below.

Speakers this month included:

• Emmanuel Martin, Unmondlibre.org, on Freedom in France
• Jason Miko-Independent Consultant, Laurus Group on The Sruggle in Macedonia
• Ghulam Mohammad Mir- former president of Jammu Kasmir Plebiscite Forum on the Dispute in Kashmir
• Christopher Lingle- adjunct scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies in Australia on India’s Failed Socialist State

You can watch video of the event, and future events here.
Audio of the event is available below.

Our speakers this week were:

• SERBIA- Aleksandar Novakovic- Katalaksija Magazine- Liberty Camps in Slovenia
• CHINA- Feng Xingyuan- Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) - current programs and initiatives
• ARGENTINA-Marcos Victorica, Consultacom S.A. Argentina
• USA- Fred Smith- President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute- “NGO bias in the International Economy.”

The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer,  Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled,  An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders.

In the coming days Atlas will be posting audio from each of the panel discussions.

Introduction

Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a teacher.

As an entrepreneur he has founded a number of successful companies — his first at age 16. He recently sold Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm that had several billion dollars in assets.

Business may be his day job, but Jeff’s passion is teaching. While at the University of Texas, students awarded Jeff with the school’s Outstanding Teacher fives times and he was selected by Business Week as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States.

Six years ago Jeff and the group of successful businessmen who created UT’s entrepreneurship program left to start the Acton School of Business. The school’s grueling 100 hour a week program has won numerous awards, including having the Princeton Review- the gold standard of business school rankings- name Acton’s students the “most competitive” MBA’s in the nation, and rank its faculty in the top three in the nation -  above Harvard, Stanford and Wharton- for the last four years in a row.

Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he served for over a decade on the school’s Visiting Committee. He is also a longtime director of National Review magazine and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Listen to Mr. Sandefer’s speech:

On  March 27th Atlas’s Teach Freedom Initiative hosted a half-day conference on the topic Free Enterprise and the Commercial Republic: Teaching Students about America’s Economic Foundations. This meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana just prior the Philadelphia Society’s Annual Meeting.

Listen in to hear James Otteson, Visiting Professor of Government from Georgetown University, as he offers the Keynote Speech: The Spirit of American Liberty: Principles and Practice.

Read the full text of his speech here.

Audio of the panel discussions will be available online in the coming days.

• Steve Johnson-Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Will address the Looming Security Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Guillermo Yeatts- Founder of Fundacion Atlas1853 (Argentina). Will speak on their current policy programs as well as the energy debate.
• Tatiana Kryzhanovskaya- PhD in Geopolitics and Economic Geography from the State University in Astrakhan (Russia).Will speak on Russia and the Economic Crisis.

The Atlas Podcast series appears each week with a new theme each week of the month:

• Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
• Week 2: An Interview with Intellectual Entrepreneur
• Week 3: International Thursday
• Week 4: Management Tip

UPDATE: We were having some troubles earlier, but the audio file should be working now.

The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

• Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
• Week 2: An Interview with Intellectual Entrepreneur
• Week 3: International Thursday
• Week 4: Management Tip

Music by Gold Standard

In addition, Atlas was honored by a special surprise guest, Aziz Sadat, a presidential candidate in Afghanistan, who offered some of his plans for the future of the country.

The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

• Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
• Week 2: An Interview with Intellectual Entrepreneur
• Week 3: International Thursday
• Week 4: Management Tip

Music by Gold Standard
Image by Morgan Ashcom

The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

• Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
• Week 2: An Interview with Intellectual Entrepreneur
• Week 3: International Thursday
• Week 4: Management Tip

Music by Gold Standard