Alex ChafuenCongratulations to Acton board member and Senior Fellow Alejandro A. Chafuen who received the Global Leadership Award at Wellington College in the UK on April 2. The award was co-sponsored by The World Congress of Families and The Bow Group.

Alex is president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and has been a great friend and advisor to Acton for many years. The work he and Atlas have done to support “intellectual entrepreneurs” worldwide — those who advance the vision of a society of free and responsible individuals — has been inestimably important.

About Alex:

Alejandro A. Chafuen has been president and CEO of Atlas Economic Research Foundation since 1991 and is president and founder of the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research. A graduate of Grove City College and the Argentine Catholic University, Buenos Aires, he also holds a Ph.D. in economics from International College, California. He is a mentator on economics, security, and strategic threats in Latin America, as well as on the relationship between economics and ethics. As well as publishing articles in newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal to La Nacion, he is also the author of the book “Faith and Liberty”, which has been published in several languages and in different editions in Spain, Poland and Italy. He is one of the world’s mentators on the economic thought of Thomistic and Late-Scholastic thinkers. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Social Affairs Unit (U.K.) and since 1980, a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society.