Friedrich-Karl Ewert
Friedrich-Karl Ewert Credentials Background Friedrich-Karl Ewert is a geologist and emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Paderborn. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the German climate change skeptic organization European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). Ewert has claimed there have […]
Wolfgang Müller
Wolfgang Müller Credentials Background Wolfgang Müller is the General Secretary of the German climate skeptic organization EIKE, or The European Institute for Climate and Energy (Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie). Müller is also listed (PDF) as a “Senior Advisor” to the climate change programme of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and is […]
Institute of Economic Affairs
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Background The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based free-market thinktank and educational charity founded in 1955 by the late Sir Antony Fisher and Lord Harris with the mission “to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving […]
Property and Environment Research Center
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) Background The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), formerly the Political Economy Research Center, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that promotes Free Market Environmentalism (FME), which it describes as “an approach to environmental problems that focuses on improving environmental quality using property rights and markets.”1“What is FME,” Property and Environment […]
Independent Women’s Forum
Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) Background The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is a 501(c)(3) think tank that has described itself as a “research and education institute.” While IWF has identified itself as non partisan and neutral group, both IWF and its 501(c)(4) “sister organization” the Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) have been identified as “anything but” according to research […]
Donors Capital Fund
Donors Capital Fund Background Donors Capital Fund is a not-for-profit donor advised charity that distributes millions of dollars in grants each year to groups, organizations and projects that are “dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise.” Between 2002 and […]
Africa Fighting Malaria
Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) Background Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) describes itself as a non-profit “health advocacy group” founded in May 2000 and based in South Africa and the United States. AFM describes its mission as to “make malaria control more transparent, responsive and effective.” AFM‘s website is regularly updated with commentary advocating the use of […]
FreedomWorks
FreedomWorks Background FreedomWorks was created in 2004 as a merger between Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) and Empower America. While CSE was founded by the Koch brothers in 1984 as special interest group promoting deregulation and was originally affiliated with Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation (CSEF), Koch do not appear active in FreedomWorks itself. Citizens […]
Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein Credentials Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA Background Alex Epstein is the director of the Center for Industrial Progress (CIP), a for-profit think tank he founded in 2011. Its mission is to “inspire Americans to embrace industrial progress as a cultural ideal.” Epstein is also a blogger at Master Resource, a “Free Market Energy Blog,” and […]
Claes Goran Johnson
Claes Göran L. Johnson Credentials Background Claes Göran Johnson is a professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has produced a series of books titled Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul and has published other work in the area of computational mathematics, finite element methods, mechanics and physics.1“Claes Johnson,” […]
