Alejandro A. Chafuen

Alejandro A. Chafuen (born 1954, Argentina) served as President and CEO of the Atlas Network from 1991-2009, and was elected to its Board in 2009. Among a host of other conservative think tank roles he was on the ‘founding committee’ of the Donors Trust and has been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1980.

A graduate of the Argentina Catholic University, he was Associate Professor at the Argentine Catholic University, University of Buenos Aires, and The Hispanic American University, CA.

In 1980 Chaufen was invited to join the Mont Pelerin Society by Leonard Read and Manuel Ayau, the youngest person ever admitted to the elite group. He joined the Atlas Foundation in 1985, and became president in 1991. A onetime follower of Ayn Rand, the atheist free-market philosopher and writer, Chafuen now considers himself a loyal Roman Catholic.

Publications

• Faith and Liberty (2003)

Positions held

• Alliance for the Family, McLean, Virginia, US, trustee
• Atlas Economic Research Foundation, CEO and president
• The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Secretary of the Board and founding trustee)
• CEDICE Foundation (US-Venezuela) VP and trustee
• Chase Foundation of Virginia, trustee
• Fraser Institute, board member
• Friends of the IEA Foundation, VP of the board
• Fundación República, honorary board member
• Fundación Internacional por la Libertad (Madrid)
• Governor's Commission on Environmental Stewardship, Commonwealth of Virginia
• Grove City College, PA, trustee
• Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, founder and President
• Instituto de Estudios Económicos y de Etica Social, founding member
• International Freedom Educational Foundation (previously International Freedom Education Foundation) President and founder
• John Templeton Foundation
• McMaster Investments, External Consultant
• Mont Pelèrin Society (since 1980)
• The Philadelphia Society (since 1992)
• International Advisory Council of ‘’Post-Communist Economies’’, journal of the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies (U.K., since 2001)
• Prague Security Studies Institute, executive committee
• Social Affairs Unit, International Advisory Council
• Templeton Religion Trust
• World Charity Foundation

Former positions

• America Means Business, Advisory Board (1996-1998) | State Policy Network trustee | Urban Policy Research Institute, later Buckeye Institute, founding trustee, left board 1998 | Centro de Estudios sobre la Libertad, Buenos Aires | Escuela de Educación Económica y Filosofía de la Libertad, Buenos Aires | Instituto de Estudios Económicos y de Etica Social, Buenos Aires, (founding member) | Fundación República, Buenos Aires, (Honorary Board Member) | Fundemos, Bolivia, Academic Advisory Board | Journal for Markets and Morality, Board of Editors | Editorial Board of Libertas, academic journal of ESEADE (Argentina).