Gregory Fossedal

Gregory A. Fossedal is the chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI), the executive committee chairman of the Ernest Martin Hopkins Institute, president of Emerging Markets Group, and a member of the board of directors of the Democracy Foundation.

Background
Fossedal was as a student at Dartmouth College also an editor of the official campus newspaper, The Daily Dartmouth. In 1980 he declined to print an editorial unfavorable to the conservative Dr. John Steel and the editorial page editor refused Fossedal's pro-Steel piece. As a result Gregory Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, and Keeney Jones founded the Dartmouth Review. . Fossedal graduated from Dartmouth College in 1981 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. From 1986 to 1991, Fossedal was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1983 to 1986, he was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Fossedal's mother, (Dr. Ruth Smith, was involved in AdTI from approximately 1996 with AdTI's Teacher Choice which was founded by Mr. Fossedal.

Fossedal and Open-Source software
Gregory Fossedal sometimes writes "THe [sic] Bottom Line" articles for United Press International (UPI). These articles are also published in The Washington Times and other papers. (Both UPI and the Washington Times are indirectly owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church).

The footer of these articles used to start with "Gregory Fossedal is chief investment officer of the Democratic Century Fund, managed by the Emerging Markets Group." More recent bio notes state that "Fossedal manages international investement [sic] research for Emerging Markets Group in Washington, DC." 

Several of Fossedal's articles are pro-Microsoft including opposing the Justice Department anti-trust action against Microsoft,, surveying members of the Congressional Black Caucus on technology issues including the anti-trust case and opposing a court-mandated break=up of Microsoft but suggesting a fine instead. 

AdTI, which is part-funded by Microsoft, has produced several reports which were pro-Microsoft and against open source software. (see also AdTI-Funding)

Fossedal's Salary from ADTI
Fossedal has been ADTI Chairman/Director between 1998 and 2000 and a paid consultant between 1998 and 2000. See also AdTI-Funding
 * 1998" Paid $42,000, plus $153,000;
 * 1999: $102,000;
 * 2000: $60,000, plus $60,000;

Books

 * Daniel O. Graham, Gregory A. Fossedal, "A Defense That Defends; Blocking Nuclear Attack," Devin-Adair, February 1, 1984, ISBN 0815953178
 * Daniel O. Graham, Gregory Fossedal, "Can Space Weapons Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War?," Greenhaven Press, June 1985, ISBN 9996815277
 * Dinesh D'Souza, Gregory Fossedal, "My Dear Alex: Letters from the KGB," Regnery Publishing, June 1, 1987, ISBN 0895265761
 * Gregory A. Fossedal, "The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution," Perseus Books Group, April 1, 1989, ISBN 0465098010
 * Gregory A. Fossedal, "Our Finest Hour: Will Clayton, the Marshall Plan, and the Triumph of Democracy" Hoover Institution Press, March 1, 1993, ISBN 0817992014
 * Gregory A. Fossedal, "Direct Democracy in Switzerland," Transaction Publishers, March 1, 2002, ISBN 0765800780
 * Gregory A. Fossedal, William Proxmire, Tommy Thompson, "Kohler: A Political Biography of Walter J. Kohler, Jr," Transaction Publishers, August 1, 2003, ISBN 0765801922

Other SourceWatch resources

 * Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Microsoft and Open Source Software

Articles by Fossedal

 * Gregory Fossedal, "Keeping America's High-Tech Edge", Investors Business Daily, August 9, 1999.
 * Gregory Fossedal, "Pause the Microsoft Case and Examine U.S. Anti-trust Policy", Press Release, January 14, 2000.
 * Gregory Fossedal, "Technology and The Congressional Black Caucus", East St. Louis Monitor, March 9, 2000.
 * Gregory Fossedal, "Fine Microsoft, use funds for new competition", Shenandoah Valley-Herald, July 5, 2000.

Articles About Fossedal

 * "Gregory A. Fossedal, Biography and background", Internet Archive copy of November 1999.
 * "Gregory Fossedal, Member of the Board of Directors", The Democracy Foundation, 2002.