Glenn Fox (University of Guelph)

Glenn Fox is an agricultural and natural resource economist. He has been a member of the University of Guelph’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Business since 1985. He served as acting department chairman in 2001-2002. Previously he taught in the economics department of the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Fox completed his Phd in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include methodology, property rights and natural resource stewardship, regulatory takings, ecoonomic theories of the firm, Austrian economics, technological change, trade and environment, transaction costs, and competition policy. His most recent book is: Reason and Reality in the Methodology of Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing U.K. 1997). Dr. Fox has been a guest speaker at Civitas and Constitutional Law Conferences.


Michael Munger (Duke University)

Michael Munger is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, where he also teaches economics and public policy, and directs the PPE Program. Munger received his Ph.D. in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following his graduate training, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission. His first teaching job was in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College, followed by appointments in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin (1986-1990) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990-1997). At UNC he directed the MPA Program, which trains public service professionals, especially city and county management. He moved to Duke in 1997, and has won three University-wide teaching awards (the Howard Johnson Award, an NAACP “Image” Award for teaching about race, and admission to the Bass Society of Teaching Fellows).


Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh)

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is the director of the Center for Governance and Markets and professor of public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Murtazashvili has extensive experience in the policy world, having served with the United States Agency for International Development in Uzbekistan and an advisor to the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Programme, and many others. She has conducted field research and numerous surveys throughout Central Asia and Afghanistan over the past twenty years. Murtazashvili has a PhD in political science and an MA in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BSFS from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.


Jacob T. Levy (McGill University)

Jacob Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and the coordinator of McGill’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and was the founding director of McGill’s Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear and Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom. He is a Distinguished Fellow with Institute for Humane Studies, a Templeton Adam Smith Tercentenary Fellow of the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School. He serves on the editorial board of The American Political Science Review and Political Studies. From 2021-2024 he served as Chair of the Political Science Department at McGill.


Audrey Redford (Hampden-Sydney College)

Audrey Redford is an Assistant Professor of Economics & Business in the Department of Economics & Business at Hampden-Sydney College. She earned her Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics from Texas Tech University and B.B.A. in Economics from James Madison University. She was a Ph.D. Fellow with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, an Adam Smith Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Humane Studies Fellow with the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Dr. Redford’s research interests include Austrian economics, public choice, and comparative institutional analysis as tools to understand the ways in which markets adapt to changes in policy and institutional foundations. Before moving to Hampden-Sydney Professor Redford taught economics at Western Carolina University.

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