Officers, contributors, assistants and advisory council, of the Libertarian Alliance

Officers of the Libertarian Alliance

President: Dr Tim Evans is a former Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute. In 1991, he was appointed as the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister in the former Czechoslovakia and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In 1993, he obtained his doctorate from the London School of Economics.

A committed libertarian, he has taught post-graduate students Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s Police Staff College at Bramshill. An author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has lectured internationally on a wide range of subjects. He lives in central London with his wife Helen, his daughter Petica, and three cats – Basil, Freddie and Douglas.

Dr Evans holds regular monthly libertarian meetings in association with the Libertarian Alliance. Called the Putney Debates, after those held informally by the Parliamentarians and representatives of the New Model Army and others in 1647, they are now in their fifteenth year and are always hosted on the second Friday of each month. An active fund raiser for the Libertarian Alliance he also acts as a media spokesman on a wide range of topics including welfare, health and even the privatisation of policing. He can be contacted via his email at tim@libertarian.co.uk His mobile telephone number is 07956 969523.

Director: Dr Sean Gabb’s career has spanned the worlds of business, government service, academia, journalism, the media, politics and public affairs.

He is an experienced broadcaster on both radio and television, and has appeared on programmes in Britain, the USA, Canada, Argentina, Sudan and various world-wide networks. He has already managed approximately 300 appearances on major new programmes, documentaries, debate programmes and chat shows, including Newsnight, The Midnight Hour, Scottish Question Time, The World Tonight and The People’s Parliament. He is frequently consulted, as an expert on civil liberties issues, on matters of economic freedom and the open society.

A prolific writer, his essays and monographs have been published by a wide range of institutions, including the Social Affairs Unit, the Independent Healthcare Association, the Adam Smith Institute, the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking, and of course the Libertarian Alliance: on such topics as constitutional law, health policy, religious freedom, civil liberties, history and economics and economic policy.

He is editor of the journal of the Libertarian Alliance, Free Life, which has been in publication for 30 years, and of Free Life Commentary, an electronic newsletter which is nearly always republished on this blog. For more information, his personal web site can be found at www.seangabb.co.uk Dr Gabb can be emailed at sean@libertarian.co.uk His mobile telephone number is 07956 472199.

Editorial and Membership Director: Nigel Meek graduated in 1996 as a mature student with a B.Sc in Psychology and followed in 1998 with an MA in Applied Social and Market Research. He has most recently worked in the market research industry and the support side of further education. Currently studying for a PhD, Nigel oversees maintenance of LA’s subscriber lists. He can be contacted at nigel@libertarian.co.uk

Financial Director: David Farrer is Finance Director of the Libertarian Alliance. He has a First in Modern History and Economics, is a qualified Chartered Secretary and a member of both the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Management. David provides business services through his company, Midlothian Management Ltd. As well as subscribing to the Institute of Economic Affairs and the David Hume Society, he is a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty through which he met his wife Pam. David is a Rothbardian natural rights Libertarian with a particular interest in the politics of his native Scotland in which he lives. In the nineteen-eighties, he was candidate for the Hampstead constituency for the Campaign to Abolish the Greater London Council. He can be contacted via his email farrer@libertarian.co.uk

Legal Affairs Spokesman: David Carr is a graduate in law from Trent Polytechnic; he is today a practicing solicitor. An active libertarian who has written a number of LA papers over the years he can be contacted via email at carr@libertarian.co.uk or on his mobile telephone number 07951 777307.

Online Administrator: Mario Huet, having a long standing interest in computers and the beneficial uses of  IT generally, he oversees the day to day running of the LA Forum. He can be contacted at his email mario@libertarian.co.uk

Director of European Affairs: Christian Michel dropped out of the Sorbonne University in Paris. He then undertook odd jobs in the film and advertising industries before becoming a telex operator at an American stock broking firm. Working his way up the corporate ladder he eventually because finance director of a public company in Geneva. In 1986, he bought his employer’s small portfolio management unit. It grew into one of the largest trust and corporate services companies, with twelve offices throughout Europe. Having sold the business to his partners, Christian Michel moved to London in June 2000. He is the author of ‘La Liberté: deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle’ published by the Institut Économique de Paris in 1986 and numerous articles and conference papers. President of the Libertarian International - www.libertarian.to - and founder of www.liberalia.com he can be contacted via email at christian@libertarian.co.uk

Controller of satire Fred Bloggs is a student and a regular contributor to the blog. He can be contacted at dagenrul29@yahoo.com

Director of Northern Affairs: David Davis (Please note: NOT the conservative MP of the same name) is retired, and is a founder member of the Libertarian Alliance, and an Old Worcester Man, just like Keith R Murdoch but without any of the money and power. (That’s why he is here.) After achieving, unpredicted, a goodish 2:1 in Biochemistry at Oxford some time ago when this was hardish, he worked in advertising and PR in the 1970s and 80s. His reasoning was that there were no jobs for scientists in the Benn-Wilsonio-Heathian “white-hot-technological revolution” of the 60s and early 70s: otherwise he would have had the bad fortune to become an unknown scientist in a socialist state, and would have probably disappeared like Dr David Kelly.  Later, he taught maths and science under the Thatcher regime and Blair, (she was of course, a scientist by training, but ended up in bad company) and founded and ran his own retail craft manufacturing business in London in the 1980s and 90s. He occasionally contributes to the Libertarian Alliance’s Blog.

He now lives in the North of England, and can be contacted at ddaviseducation@aol.com, or at david@libertarian.co.uk

NetVideo and YouTube Research Assistant: Peter Davis is currently a “student”, despite what the British socialist schools system is trying to do in reverse. He analyses videos for relative usefulness for the LA, from time to time, inbetween homework assignments. Peter Davis can be contacted at blackvauxhallman@aol.com

Michael Winning lives in the North West, and recently joined the blogging team. He can be contacted at drakeatrevenge@aol.com

Hubert Jongen lives in the Netherlands. He was until recently the President of the Libertarian International - www.libertarian.to - and is a founding father of the European libertarian movement. He can be contacted via his email address at hubert@libertarian.co.uk

Advisory Council of the Libertarian Alliance

Dr Nigel Ashford
Staffordshire University

Dr Peter Breggin
Psychiatrist

Professor John Burton
University of Birmingham

Professor Christie Davies
University of Reading

Dr Stephen Davies
Sheffield Hallam University

Walter Grinder
Institute for Humane Studies

Professor John Hibbs OBE
University of Central England in Birmingham

Professor John Hospers
University of Southern California

Professor Eric Mack
Tulane University

Professor Joachim Maitre
University of Boston

Professor David Myddleton
Cranfield University

Professor Douglas Rasmussen
St John’s University

Sudha Shenoy
University of Newcastle
(New South Wales)

Professor Thomas S. Szasz
State University of New York

Dr Bill Thompson
University of Reading

Professor Walter Williams
George Mason University

“They also serve”

We would also like to mention those many supporters who continue to contribute to the Libertarian Alliance’s activities by way of financial contributions, envelope stuffing, computer assistance, HTML conversions and so forth. A very long list, they include, in no particular order:-

Rebecca Baty
Toby Baxendale
David Botsford
Tom Burroughs
Antoine Clarke
Helen Evans
Mark Haley
Malcolm Hutty
Alastair James
Hubert Jongen
Simon McIlwaine
Don Riley
Ian and Bunny Smedley
Paul Staines
Martin Summers
Rob Thomas