Alejandro Chafuen

Alejandro Chafuen is the CEO and President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

Born in 1954 in Argentina, 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. 

Positions held

 * Atlas Economic Research Foundation, CEO and president
 * Acton Institute, Founding Trustee
 * Fraser Institute
 * Chase Foundation of Virginia, trustee
 * Fundación Internacional por la Libertad (Madrid)
 * Instituto de Estudios Económicos y de Etica Social, founding member
 * Fundación República, honorary board member
 * Hispanic American Center for Economic Research, founder and President
 * State Policy Network, trustee
 * CEDICE, trustee
 * Governor's Commission on Environmental Stewardship, Commonwealth of Virginia
 * Social Affairs Unit, Advisory Board
 * America Means Business, Advisory Board (1996-1998)
 * Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, founding trustee
 * McMaster Investments, External Consultant