Mont Pelerin Society

Mont Pelerin Society
founded in the year	1947
Website	www.montpelerin.org/
Last revision	18.12.2012
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 9
Presences n = 83
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,3 Business,9 Media,9 Politics,17 Academia,41 NGO,4 </pPie>
Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,7 Leader (CEO etc.),22 Consultant,15 Editor,7 Interviewee,2 Member,15 Participant,3 Lecturer,0 Employee,12 </pPie>

Organizational Structure and Funding

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Gary S. Becker (1989), Vice-president

• Pascal Salin (1996-1998), President

• Ed Feulner (formerly), President

• Victoria Curzon-Price (2004-2006), President

• Gary S. Becker (1990-1992), President

• Gary S. Becker (1985-1996), Member of the Executive Board

• Pascal Salin

• Christian Watrin (2000-2002), President

• Leonard Liggio, Senior Vice President

• Victoria Curzon Price, President 2004-2006

• Alberto Benegas Lynch (former)

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Ed Feulner, Treasurer

Members

Members are not actively engaged in the institution, but have some rights (participation in certain events...). Sometimes members have to pay extensive yearly fees.

• Frank Van Dun

• John Blundell

• Tom G. Palmer

• Bouckaert Boudewijn

• Victoria Curzon-Price

• Hardy Bouillon

• Vernon L. Smith

• Detmar Doering (since 1996), Member

• Eamonn Butler

• Barbara Kolm

• Oliver Knipping

• Erich Weede

• Pedro Schwartz

• Robert Nef

• Peter Boettke

• Pierre Garello

• Oliver Marc Hartwich

• Gary S. Becker (since 1971)

• Karl Socher

• Charles B. Blankart

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Linda Whetstone, Member of the board

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Jiří Schwarz, It is not specified of which board she is a member.

It is not clear what kind of board Linda Whetstone is member of.

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.