Alejandro A. Chafuen, Ph.D.

Alejandro A. Chafuen was president and CEO of Atlas Network from 1991 to 2018 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 frequent commentator on economics, security, and strategic threats in Latin America, as well as on the relationship between economics and ethics. In addition to publishing articles in newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal to La Nacion, he is the author of 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 leading commentators 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, the Mont Pelerin Society.