Founder Participants
The original participants were:
- Maurice Allais, French physicist and economist
- Carlo Antoni
- Hans Barth
- Karl Brandt, German-American agricultural economist
- Götz Briefs German economist
- Herbert Cornuelle
- John Davenport
- Stanley Dennison, British economist
- Aaron Director, professor at the University of Chicago Law School
- Walter Eucken, German economist, father of Ordoliberalism
- Erick Eyck,
- Milton Friedman, American economist
- Harry Gideonse, Dutch-American economist, President, Brooklyn College
- Frank Graham,
- Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist
- Henry Hazlitt, libertarian philosopher, economist and journalist
- F. A. Harper
- Trygve Hoff, Norwegian economist and journalist
- Albert Hunold
- Carl Iversen, Danish economist
- John Jewkes, British economist
- Bertrand de Jouvenel, French philosopher and political economist
- Frank Knight, Chicago school economist
- Fritz Machlup, Austrian-American economist
- Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat and writer
- Henri de Lovinfosse,
- Loren Miller, civic reformer and libertarian activist
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist
- Jose Isidro Morante
- Felix Morley
- Michael Polanyi, Hungarian/British chemist, economist and philosopher of science
- Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher
- William Rappard, academic and diplomat
- Leonard Read, founder, Foundation for Economic Education
- George Révay
- Lionel Robbins, British economist
- Wilhelm Röpke, social market economist
- George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist
- Herbert Tingsten, Swedish political scientist and journalist
- François Trevoux
- Orval Watts
- Cicely Wedgwood
Board of Directors 2008 –2010
- Deepak Lal, President (USA/UK)
- Greg Lindsay, Senior Vice President (Australia)
- Carl-Johan Westholm, Secretary (Sweden)
- Edwin J. Feulner, Treasurer (USA)
- Victoria Curzon-Price, Vice President (Switzerland)
- Eamonn Butler, Vice President (UK)
- Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Vice President (Denmark)
- Michael Zoeller, Vice President (Germany)
- Veselin Vukotic, Director (Montenegro)
- Giancarlo Ibarguen, Director (Guatemala)
- Suri Ratnapala, Director (Australia)
- Linda Whetstone, Director (UK)
- Enrique Ghersi, Director (Peru)
- J.R. Clark, Vice President(USA)
- Hiromitsu Ishi, Director (Japan)
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