Leadership
FIRE's president since March 2006 is Greg Lukianoff, who previously served as interim president after the retirement of David French.
FIRE was co-founded by Alan Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, who were FIRE's co-directors until 2004. Kors served as FIRE's first president and chairperson. Its first executive director and, later, CEO, was Thor Halvorssen. As of 2008, Silverglate was still active with the organization as chairman and served on the Board of Directors, while Kors was no longer listed as an active board member. Also included among FIRE's directors were molecular biologist Richard Losick, feminist scholar Daphne Patai, and libertarian author Virginia Postrel.
As of 2008, FIRE's Board of Advisors included the following notable people:
- T. Kenneth Cribb, former Reagan official.
- Nat Hentoff, author and columnist.
- Roy Innis, National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.
- Wendy Kaminer, lawyer, feminist, and social critic.
- Leonard Liggio, author, law professor, and board member of several libertarian think tanks.
- Herbert London, president of the Hudson Institute.
- John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley.
- Christina Hoff Sommers, author and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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