Legatum Institute

Legatum Institute Background The Legatum Institute (LI) was founded in 2007 by the Legatum Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dubai-based investment firm the Legatum Group. According to financial disclosures, in 2014 the Legatum Institute transferred activities from the Legatum […]

TaxPayers’ Alliance

TaxPayers’ Alliance Background The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) is a UK lobby group that campaigns for low taxes, less government intervention and greater transparency with taxpayer money. The TPA was founded in 2004 by Matthew Elliott, subsequently Chief Executive of the official pro-Brexit campaign Vote Leave, and Andrew Allum, a partner at L.E.K Consulting.1“Our history,” Taxpayers’ Alliance. Archived […]

Harold Hamm

Harold Hamm Credentials Background Harold G. Hamm is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Resources, an oil company he established in 1967. Hamm is also the co-founder and chairman of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA). He stepped down as chief executive of Continental in December 2019, however would remain in the […]

Olavi Kärner

Olavi Kärner (Deceased) Credentials Background Olavi Kärner (1942-2016) was a former research associate at the Tartu Observatory in Toravere, Estonia. According to a speaker profile on the Heartland Institute’s “International Conferences on Climate Change”, website, Kärner’s scientific interests included “time series […]

Clifford Mass

Clifford “Cliff” Mass Credentials Background Clifford F. Mass is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. According to his […]

Kevin Mooney

Kevin Mooney Credentials Background Kevin Mooney is a Washington D.C.-based reporter for The Daily Signal, a publication of The Heritage Foundation, and a journalist at the Commonwealth Foundation. According to his personal website, Kevin Mooney’s work […]

Sir Christopher Chope

Image Credit: Chris MacAndrew/Parliament/Creative Commons/CC BY 3.0 Christopher Chope Credentials Background Sir Christopher Chope is a trained barrister and has served as the Conservative MP for Christchurch in Dorset since 1997. He was the MP for Southampton between 1983 and 1992.1 Benjamin Butterworth. “Sir Christopher Chope: how he voted on gay marriage, women’s rights and […]

Australian Environment Foundation

Australian Environment Foundation Background The Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) is a charity founded in 2005 which, according to its website, “is a different kind of environment group” that “seeks to protect the environment, while preserving the rule of law, property rights, and the freedom of the individual.”  The AEF was established by the Institute of Public Affairs […]

Lee Raymond

Lee R. Raymond Credentials Background Lee R. Raymond was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil from 1999 until he retired in 2005 with a nearly $400 million severance package, one of the most generous in history. Raymond worked at Exxon and affiliates for his entire career. He served as director […]

Government Accountability and Oversight

Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) Background Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit launched in the beginning of 2018 by “experienced attorneys from the litigation, prosecutorial and classical liberal think tank worlds.” According to its website, “GAO will engage in litigation to […]