Brad Lips

Brad Lips is the chief executive officer of Atlas Network, which collaborates with more than 500 think tanks and do-tanks worldwide to increase freedom and prosperity. He is the author of Liberalism and the Free Society and The Freedom Movement: Its Past, Present, and Future, as well as the editor of Finding New Ideas in Old Ones. Lips organized the Mont Pelerin Society's General Meeting in 2016 and now chairs the Society's Membership and Recruitment Committee. He is also a member of the Cosmos Club, the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Templeton Religion Trust. He serves on the boards of directors of Donors Capital Fund, Lexandria, and The Village School. He is a past president of the Antigua Forum at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala, and he received the Linda Whetstone Award for Freedom and Human Rights at the 2025 Toronto Democracy Forum. Prior to joining Atlas Network in 1998, Lips co-founded an Internet start-up, conducted equity research for Smith Barney, Inc., and worked in music journalism. He has spoken on five continents on bottom-up approaches to reducing poverty, and his work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Forbes. Lips received his MBA from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. Brad lives with his wife, Stephanie, and their children in Falls Church, Virginia.